Product Description

In this Readers' Guide, Patsy Stoneman has devised a careful route through the bewildering profusion of critical writing on Wuthering Heights. After a chapter on nineteenth-century responses, the Guide links together a selection of extracts demonstrating the major critical developments of the twentieth century, from humanism through formalism to deconstruction. Subsequent chapters, working within this general framework, focus on psychoanalytic readings, source studies, readings using discourse theory, work on dissemination, and political readings including Marxism, postcolonialism and feminism. By combining thoroughness and accessibility, this Guide aims to be useful to both undergraduates and more advanced scholars.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #368233 in Books
• Published on: 2000-04-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

About the Author
PATSY STONEMAN is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Hull.

Customer Reviews

basically a good choice...
Essentially, it's unbiased, comprehensive and incredibly useful. It genuinely contains the entire history of Wuthering Heights' criticism, which can unfortunately prove somewhat dense at times. For an A-level course, the detail is sufficient, and to be frank, in excess but that said, the book needn't be read cover to cover. There are extracts from various essays, with useful commentary, (including pieces from Lord Cecil's famous critique - top notch stuff) which are readable in their own right.

I would certainly recommend it!