Wuthering Heights. Longman Cultural Edition

A new edition of Wuthering Heights with a lot of extras appears these days:

Wuthering Heights, A Longman Cultural Edition Emily Bronte, Edited by Alison Booth
Feb 2008, Paperback, 464 pages
ISBN13: 9780321212986
ISBN10: 0321212983
£3.99 /

Description

From Longman's Cultural Editions series, Wuthering Heights, edited by Alison Booth, presents Emily Bronte’s haunting, brilliant novel freshly edited, smartly annotated, and illuminated by various contexts.

Handsomely produced and affordably priced, the Longman Cultural Editions series presents classic works in provocative and illuminating contexts-cultural, critical, and literary. Each Cultural Edition consists of the complete text of an important literary work, reliably edited, headed by an inviting introduction, and supplemented by helpful annotations; a table of dates to track its composition, publication, and public reception in relation to biographical, cultural and historical events; and a guide for further inquiry and study.

Contents

• List of Illustrations (Top Withins, High Sunderland, "Gun Portrait" from Marion Harland, Portrait, Several illustrations from Bronte Society Transactions: Main Street, Haworth, Haworth Old Church, The Birthplace of the Bronte Sisters, Thornton, The Black Bull, Branwell Bronte's Chair, The Waterfall on the Moor, Haworth Parsonage, Emily Bronte, drawing of Keeper, Haworth Parsonage)

• Facscimile Title Page of First Edition
• About This Edition
• Introduction
• Chronologies

Text of Wuthering Heights

• Notes

Contexts

Biographical

• Emily and Anne Bronte, "Diary Note"
• Charlotte Bronte, "Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell", "Editor's Preface"
• Ellen Nussey on Emily
• Elizabeth Gaskell, The Life Of Charlotte Bronte on Emily
• Emily Bronte, Poems

Historical, Social, and Legal Inheritance, Law, and Women

• From Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, A Brief Summary, in Plain Language, of the Most Important Law Concerning Women (London: Chapman, 1854)
• Class, Urban Culture, and Mobility
• Urban Slums and Street Children Self-Help

Houses, Home Decor, and Consumer Goods

• From Charles Eastlake, Hints on Household Taste
• From John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice

Regional and International

• Ireland
• Family History
• William Wright, The Brontes In Ireland
• The Great Hunger

Yorkshire

• Dialect
• From Richard Blakesborough, Wit, Character, Folklore & Customs of the Nortern Riding of Yorkshire, 1898
• Religion
• Literacy: Summary and Quotation from J. Paul Hunter, Before Novels
• Haworth and Vicinity
• Original Locations

Memoirs and Pilgrimages

• C. Holmes Cautley, "Old Haworth Folk Who Knew the Brontes," 1910
• Virginia Woolf, from "Haworth, November 1904"
• Sylvia Plath
• Muriel Spark
• The Bronte Society and Parsonage Museum
• From Claude Meeker, "Haworth: Home of the Brontes," 1895
  

Critical and Artful

• Reviews
• Early Criticism
• Sequels, Adaptations, Films

Further Reading
Web material

Features
* The text is enriched by poems, diaries, and memoirs, from Brontë to Virginia Woolf.
* This illustrated edition is unique in locating Wuthering Heights in its region as well as period, while it follows every phase of the Brontë renown, from tourism to adaptations, from early reviews to recent critical trends.
* Alison’s Booth’s extraordinary edition will fascinate students of the Brontës, the novel, female literature, the gothic, and the fraught conflicts of Victorian literary imagination.


Author
Alison Booth, Professor of English at the University of Virginia with a Ph.D. from Princeton (1986), specializes in Victorian studies, the novel, and women writers, while her teaching and research also range broadly--across the Atlantic and up to contemporary cultural studies--to encompass narrative theory, biography and autobiography, and celebrity. Her numerous articles and essays have appeared in distinguished journals and collections. She is the author of two acclaimed critical books: the prize-winning How to Make It as a Woman: Collective Biographical History from Victoria to the Present (2004), and Greatness Engendered: George Eliot and Virginia Woolf (1992), and co-editor of the Norton Introduction to Literature (now in its ninth edition). Her current research, reflected in the Longman Cultural Edition of WutheringHeights, involves the popular genre of "homes and haunts" of famous people, literary tourism, and the character of famous writers' houses.

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