Difference between revisions of "Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë, 1847)"

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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 metapgorizes 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

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 westhercocks we are" - Love's Labours Lost "what Caine? What weathercock" is.1.94

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 **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
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