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'Crypts of Identity: the Refusal of Mourning in "Wuthering Heights"'

Steven Vine

English, Volume: 48, Issue: 192, Pages: 169 - 186

Swansea University Author: Steven Vine

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The essay examines the ghosts of loss and exclusion in 'Wuthering Heights', and argues that selfhood and the social body in the novel are riven by the phantoms they exclude. Loss and exclusion are inscribed in a dynamics of mourning, for the text's exiled terms inhabit a domain of alt...

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Published in: English
Published: 1999
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