Wuthering Heights : the writing in the margin

Summary: Berg argues that Wuthering Heights is about margins and marginality-- the perceptions and uses of domestic, bodily, and textual spaces by men and women.

Item details

ISBN: 0805780513 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780805780512 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 0805781013 (cloth)
ISBN: 9780805781014 (cloth)
Physical Description: print
xiii, 136 p. : ill ; 23 cm.
Publisher: New York : Twayne Publishers ; London : Prentice Hall, c1996.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 126-130) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The historical context -- The importance of the work -- Critical reception -- Wuthering Heights: the writing in the margin -- Entering the Heights: Lockwood, and Catherine's diary -- The values at the center: Joseph and Nelly -- Marking the territory: Heathcliff, Edgar, and homosocial desire -- Beyond property: Catherin's articulation of a feminine "excess" -- Megalomania: the second generation and Heathcliff's repetition compulsion -- The "property" changes hands: Cathy's challenge to patriarchy -- A (provisional) conclusion, and a warning about visual aids!