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To all such 'Wuthering Heights' must appear a rude and strange production. The wild moors of the North England can for them have no interest: the language, the manners, the very dwellings...must be to such readers in a great measure unitelligible, and- where intelligible- republisive; (Charlotte Bronte 1850) How far do Charlotte Bronte's words go in explaining the hostile reception 'Wuthering Heights' recieved on its publication in 1848? Examine why the book failed to ignite the interest of readers in 1848.
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2007-02-10 01:47:51 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities Books & Authors

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Charlotte Bronte wrote Jane Eyre. Her sister, Emily Bronte, wrote Wuthering Heights and it was published a year before her death at the age of 30.

Victorian readers found the book shocking and inappropriate in its depiction of passionate, ungoverned love and cruelty (despite the fact that the novel portrays no sex or bloodshed), and the work was virtually ignored. Even Emily Brontë’s sister Charlotte—an author whose works contained similar motifs of Gothic love and desolate landscapes—remained ambivalent toward the unapologetic intensity of her sister’s novel. In a preface to the book, which she wrote shortly after Emily Brontë’s death, Charlotte Brontë stated, “Whether it is right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff, I do not know. I scarcely think it is.”

2007-02-13 14:50:25 · answer #1 · answered by Bill B 3 · 0 0

Perhaps this wikipedia page will help you http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuthering_Heights

2007-02-10 09:58:29 · answer #2 · answered by hollymichal 6 · 0 0

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