Wuthering Heights Pb (Broadview Literary Texts) Book

Critics often comment on the importance of landscape in Wuthering Heights, and Heywood locates the text more precisely than previous editions amid Yorkshire?s limestone north and moorland south. As well, arguing that Heathcliff is in fact black, Heywood places the novel within the context of Yorkshire?s slaveholding society. Heywood also makes an important contribution to scholarship, arguing persuasively for a re-structuring of the chapter and section breaks. He has altered the chapter numbers and divisions according to what he sees as the most likely original structure of the novel, with 34 chapters in two parts, each numbered 1-17. Finally, this edition includes a variety of appendices that help to illuminate the novel?s legal and religious contexts, and its historical and literary background.

NOTE TO INSTRUCTORS: The Broadview edition of Wuthering Heights edited by Christopher Heywood is unusual in a number of respects. The editor advances several interesting and controversial positions concerning such issues as the setting for the novel, connections in the novel to the history of slavery, and the chapter divisions in the novel. Given the extended presentation of these arguments in a long introduction and in several appendices, the edition is longer than are most Broadview Literary Texts, and also considerably more expensive than are most of our editions of canonical works (14.95 US; 19.95 CDN; 9.95 UK). It is our expectation that this edition will be a particularly attractive candidate for upper-level courses where the instructor is interested in engaging the students with some of these issues in detail. But we draw these facts to your attention to ensure that you do not order the edition while assuming it to be a conventional edition of the sort commonly adopted at the first- or second-year level.