Wuthering Heights

This Norton Critical Edition reprints, as it has in its previous two editions, a text that is a careful collation of both the 1847 and the 1850 editions of the novel. The numerous typographical errors of the 1847 edition have been corrected, and teh inappropriate changes Charlotte Bronte made to the 1850 manuscript of her sister's novel have been removed. the result is a responsible, clearly annotated edition complete with textual commentary.

New to this third edition are seventeen poems by Emily Bronte, which Charlotte Bronte selected for inclusion in the 1850 edition of Withering Heights to introduce her sister to the public as a poet William M. Sale's "emily Bronte's History of Gondal" explores the connection between these poems and the prose history of the imaginary island of Gondal that Emily Bronte and her sister Anne wrote over a number of years. Also included are selections from Emily Bronte's diary, contemporary reviews of the novel, and Charlotte Bronte's preface and biographical introduction to the 1850 edition (prompted by the negativism of the book's reviewers). Emily Bronte's poems and diary excerpts are new to this edition, as are several contemporary reviews of the novel.

Six critical essays appear, and five of them are new. Charles Percy Sanger's germane essay on the structure of Wuthering Heights is again included. Two pieces by A. Stuart Daley examine, respectively, the significance of nature and chronology in the novel. In each of their critical investigations, Carol Jacobs, Nancy Armstrong, and J. Hillis Miller examine the problems of genre and critical reputation which to the present day continue to surround Wuthering Heights. (back cover)