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| − | == | + | Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights. Pub. 1847. Ed. Pauline Nestor. Penguin Classics, 2003. Print. |
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| + | * Pub 3 vol by Newby (lower-rent than Smith, Elder who pub. Charlotte: see [[Sutherland 1976]], [[List of Victorian publishers]]) | ||
| + | *'''Good for''': 22-4 Lockwood reading Catherine's marginalia then seeing her ghost; 62 Lockwood and nelly dean talking about storytelling methods (Benjamin storytelling/novel); catching reader up at the beginning of Vol 2 brief metafictive framing of Nelly as narrator/storyteller (interesting that Lockwood chooses the former term); 249 partial and inadequate reading of books a dramatization of theme of misunderstanding | ||
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| + | ==General Notes== | ||
*22-4 extraordinary passage with Lockwood reading Catherine's narrative in the book, then dreaming, then the ghost | *22-4 extraordinary passage with Lockwood reading Catherine's narrative in the book, then dreaming, then the ghost | ||
*34-5 Mrs Dean gives somewhat convoluted genealogy | *34-5 Mrs Dean gives somewhat convoluted genealogy | ||
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** Benjamin storytelling/novel | ** Benjamin storytelling/novel | ||
* that and 63 metafictive | * that and 63 metafictive | ||
| − | *70 | + | *70 metaphorizes heathcliff as looking like "bleak, Holly coal country" |
*81 Catherine's dream that she doesn't belong in heaven | *81 Catherine's dream that she doesn't belong in heaven | ||
*82 physical bodies separate and delineate but souls (as C's and H's) can unify between them | *82 physical bodies separate and delineate but souls (as C's and H's) can unify between them | ||
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*249 Hareton trying to read the sign above the gate - the spectrum of not reading in this novel, or partial/inadequate reading | *249 Hareton trying to read the sign above the gate - the spectrum of not reading in this novel, or partial/inadequate reading | ||
*254 linton's "distorted nature" never to be at ease or let others be -- Heathcliff's physical distortion inherited as mental | *254 linton's "distorted nature" never to be at ease or let others be -- Heathcliff's physical distortion inherited as mental | ||
| + | *266 now Catherine compared to the landscape more positively than heathcliff | ||
| + | *288-9 Heathcliff opening Cathy's coffin | ||
| + | *299 "she's a beauty, true; but not an angel." Lockwood ref toNelly's unreliability , though I trust her more | ||
| + | *309 nelly says heathcliff has a "queer end" | ||
| − | == | + | ==Theme Tracking== |
| − | === | + | ===Reading/Writing=== |
| − | === | + | ===Materiality=== |
| − | === | + | ===Physicality=== |
===Shakespeare allusions=== | ===Shakespeare allusions=== | ||
*6: Twelfth Night - Lockwood recounting failed courting says he "never told my love" | *6: Twelfth Night - Lockwood recounting failed courting says he "never told my love" | ||
*17 Lear - Lockwood when trying to escape WH utrers "several incoherent threats of retaliation that, in their indefinite depth of virulence, smacked of king Lear utters" | *17 Lear - Lockwood when trying to escape WH utrers "several incoherent threats of retaliation that, in their indefinite depth of virulence, smacked of king Lear utters" | ||
| − | *beginning of ch 4 "what vain | + | *beginning of ch 4 "what vain weathercocks we are" - Love's Labours Lost "what Caine? What weathercock?" I.1.94 |
Latest revision as of 17:05, 3 April 2018
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights. Pub. 1847. Ed. Pauline Nestor. Penguin Classics, 2003. Print.
- Pub 3 vol by Newby (lower-rent than Smith, Elder who pub. Charlotte: see Sutherland 1976, List of Victorian publishers)
- Good for: 22-4 Lockwood reading Catherine's marginalia then seeing her ghost; 62 Lockwood and nelly dean talking about storytelling methods (Benjamin storytelling/novel); catching reader up at the beginning of Vol 2 brief metafictive framing of Nelly as narrator/storyteller (interesting that Lockwood chooses the former term); 249 partial and inadequate reading of books a dramatization of theme of misunderstanding
Contents
General Notes
- 22-4 extraordinary passage with Lockwood reading Catherine's narrative in the book, then dreaming, then the ghost
- 34-5 Mrs Dean gives somewhat convoluted genealogy
- 37 heathcliff industrial surplus from Liverpool
- 62 Lockwood and nelly dean talking about storytelling methods
- Benjamin storytelling/novel
- that and 63 metafictive
- 70 metaphorizes heathcliff as looking like "bleak, Holly coal country"
- 81 Catherine's dream that she doesn't belong in heaven
- 82 physical bodies separate and delineate but souls (as C's and H's) can unify between them
- 102 heathcliff no longer coal country but "an arid wilderness"
- 120 lots of books in the Thrushcross Grange library never being opened by Edgar et al - very Price 2012
- 122 Cathy's rambling an avian version of Ophelia's flowers - lists and insanity
- 125 Cathy's monologue -- wonderful
- lots of interesting stuff in ch xii of vol 1
- 126 their souls are one
- 136ff Isabella's long letter -- "Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living."
- 158 beginning vol 2 - brief metafictive framing of Nelly as narrator/storyteller (interesting that Lockwood chooses the former term)
- also just enough to catch a reader up -- "I had heard all of my neighbor's history"
- 161 he's my soul
- 167 the former inhabitantS of cathy's body
- 185 Catherine to L / Cathy to H, young Cathy to L / Catherine else: chiastic naming, intimacy
- 224 letters between Catherine and linton almost a form of perversion
- 226: "A fine bundle of trash you study in your leisure hours to be sure - Why, it's good enough to be printed!
- 249 Hareton trying to read the sign above the gate - the spectrum of not reading in this novel, or partial/inadequate reading
- 254 linton's "distorted nature" never to be at ease or let others be -- Heathcliff's physical distortion inherited as mental
- 266 now Catherine compared to the landscape more positively than heathcliff
- 288-9 Heathcliff opening Cathy's coffin
- 299 "she's a beauty, true; but not an angel." Lockwood ref toNelly's unreliability , though I trust her more
- 309 nelly says heathcliff has a "queer end"
Theme Tracking
Reading/Writing
Materiality
Physicality
Shakespeare allusions
- 6: Twelfth Night - Lockwood recounting failed courting says he "never told my love"
- 17 Lear - Lockwood when trying to escape WH utrers "several incoherent threats of retaliation that, in their indefinite depth of virulence, smacked of king Lear utters"
- beginning of ch 4 "what vain weathercocks we are" - Love's Labours Lost "what Caine? What weathercock?" I.1.94
