_-_Wuthering_Heights,_1847.jpg) Title page of the first edition, 1847 | |
| Author | Emily Brontë |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Tragedy, gothic |
| Set in | Northern England |
| Published | 24 November 1847[1] |
| Publisher | Thomas Cautley Newby |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| ISBN | 0-486-29256-8 |
| OCLC | 71126926 |
| 823.8 | |
| LC Class | PR4172 .W7 2007 |
| Text | Wuthering Heights at Wikisource |
Wuthering Heights is the only novel by the English author Emily Brontë, initially published in 1847 under her pen name "Ellis Bell". It concerns two families of the landed gentry living on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent relationships with the Earnshaws' foster son, Heathcliff. The novel, influenced by Romanticism and Gothic fiction, is considered a classic of English literature.
Wuthering Heights was accepted by publisher Thomas Newby along with Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey before the success of their sister Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre, but they were published later. After Emily's death, Charlotte edited a second edition of Wuthering Heights, which was published in 1850.[2]
Wuthering Heights is now widely considered to be one of the greatest novels ever written in English, but contemporaneous reviews were polarised. It was controversial for its depictions of mental and physical cruelty, including domestic abuse, and for its challenges to Victorian morality, religion, and the class system.[3][4] It has inspired an array of adaptations across several media, including English singer-songwriter Kate Bush's song of the same name.
- ^ "New Novels, Published by Mr. Newby, in 3 vols, this day, Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey, by Acton and Ellis Bell, Esqrs". The Morning Post. 24 November 1847. p. 1 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Wiltshire2005was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Nussbaum, Martha Craven (1996). "Wuthering Heights: The Romantic Ascent". Philosophy and Literature. 20 (2): 20. doi:10.1353/phl.1996.0076. S2CID 170407962 – via Project Muse.
- ^ Eagleton, Terry (2005). Myths of Power. A Marxist Study of the Brontës. London: Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN 978-1-4039-4697-3.