1. Wuthering Heights

2. Published in 1847

3. Wuthering Heights Published in 1847 Elements of Romanticism / Victorian / Realism

4. Wuthering Heights Published in 1847 Elements of Romanticism / Victorian / Realism Novel is built upon dichotomies (oppositions, contradictions, extremities)

5. Wuthering Heights Novel is built upon dichotomies (oppositions, contradictions, extremities)  emotion and reason

6. Wuthering Heights Novel is built upon dichotomies (oppositions, contradictions, extremities)  emotion and reason  wild excess and dignified restraint

7. Wuthering Heights Novel is built upon dichotomies (oppositions, contradictions, extremities)  emotion and reason  wild excess and dignified restraint  physical and spiritual

8. Wuthering Heights Novel is built upon dichotomies (oppositions, contradictions, extremities)  emotion and reason  wild excess and dignified restraint  physical and metaphysical  Dionysian and Apollonian

9. Wuthering Heights Novel is built upon dichotomies (oppositions, contradictions, extremities)  emotion and reason  wild excess and dignified restraint  physical and metaphysical  Dionysian and Apollonian  innocence and experience

10. Wuthering Heights Thus, story is fraught with instability, tension, turbulence, conflict

11. Wuthering Heights Thus, story is fraught with instability, tension, turbulence, conflict A study of love, grief, revenge, social class, abuse, identity

12. Wuthering Heights Structured as Frame Story

13. Wuthering Heights Structured as Frame Story (story within story)

14. Wuthering Heights Structured as Frame Story (story within story)  External Narrator - Lockwood

15. Wuthering Heights Structured as Frame Story (story within story)  External Narrator – Lockwood  Internal Narrator – Ellen Dean (Nelly)

16. Wuthering Heights Structured as Frame Story (story within story)  External Narrator – Lockwood  Internal Narrator – Ellen Dean (Nelly) Unorthodox, distorted chronology

17. Wuthering Heights Unorthodox, distorted chronology  in medias res

18. Wuthering Heights Unorthodox, distorted chronology  in medias res  retrospective narration

19. Wuthering Heights Unorthodox, distorted chronology  in medias res  retrospective narration Two movements – two generations

20. Wuthering Heights Unorthodox, distorted chronology  in medias res  retrospective narration Two movements – two generations Gothic

21. Wuthering Heights Unorthodox, distorted chronology  in medias res  retrospective narration Two movements – two generations Gothic - story that features elements of horror, supernatural, pervasive gloom, violence, and a preoccupation with death.

22. Wuthering Heights Geography and location are critical

23. Wuthering Heights Geography and location are critical houses

24. Wuthering Heights Geography and location are critical houses moors

25. Wuthering Heights

29. Wuthering Heights is “a romance that brilliantly challenges the basic presumptions of the ‘romantic’; a gothic that evolves—with absolutely inevitable grace—into its temperamental opposite; a parable of innocence and loss, and childhood’s necessary defeat.”