Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights Study Guide
Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights Study Guide
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Our pocket-sized Connell Guide, written by the late, great Graham Bradshaw, helps you see what’s really happening beneath the romance: the layered narrators, the moral ambiguity, the obsession, the revenge.
Clear, intelligent, and refreshingly concise, it’s the perfect companion for reading (or re-reading) this extraordinary novel.
Wuthering Heights is traditionally seen as being about the timeless romance between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. That is the version made famous by Hollywood in the greatest film version of the novel, released in 1939 and starring Laurence Olivier. But while Emily Brontë is very much concerned with deep emotion in Wuthering Heights, it is not, argues Graham Bradshaw, in any straightforward romantic sense. Bradshaw takes issue with the conventional view of Wuthering Heights, arguing that this is a novel in which the characters are driven by forces and passions they don't understand and that Emily Brontë's dark, violent world is much more complex than most critics allow.
With Emerald Fennell's new adaptation bringing Wuthering Heights back into the spotlight, many readers are returning to Brontë’s novel, and some discovering it’s far stranger, darker and more complex than they remembered.
