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'Wuthering Heights'

Steven Vine

The Literary Dictionary and Encyclopoedia

Swansea University Author: Steven Vine

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The article summarises the narrative structure of the novel and draws attention to the transgressiveness of its content in the context of the Victorian period. 'Wuthering Heights' flouts bourgeois taste, standards of civility, and the expectations of a polite middle-class metropolitan read...

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Published: 2002
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