{"product_id":"emily-brontes-wuthering-heights-diversity-in-contemporary-reviews-von-ingo-westermann","title":"Emily Bronte's \"Wuthering Heights\" - Diversity in (contemporary) reviews","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg (Seminar für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Outsiders in Victorian fiction, language: English, abstract: Emily Bronte¿s novel Wuthering Heights is a controversial piece of literature. Its discussion over the decades has been as diverse as is the range of its characters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen it was first published in 1847, in the beginning of the Victorian era, its reception was of a considerable diversity, ranging from absolute rejection to baffled appreciation due to its originality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDifferences in reception become even more extreme and obvious when contemporary reviews are being compared with the way the novel is being received nowadays:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRejection has transformed into a matter of wide appeal that does not only attract film makers, painters, musicians and other authors, but has also found its way into many a teacher¿s English lesson. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWuthering Heights has made its way from the ignorance of public appreciation to the status of being a classic and masterpiece of English literature. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the following pages I will focus on reviews of the novel, predominantly on contemporary criticism intermixed with recent comments, and address the question as to why such a spectrum of opinions can exist and be expressed about one and the same novel. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn my opinion, the importance of this question stems from the impression that the reading of Wuthering Heights leaves on its recipients ¿[¿] a strange sort of book, [¿] it is impossible to begin and not finish it; and quite as impossible to lay it aside afterwards and say nothing about it.¿ As a reader and especially as a student of English, I feel a rather large obligation to look deeper into the differences and controversies that the novel in question has caused during the last hundred and fifty years and thus to also get a better sense of awareness how the field of literature is subject to cultural and historical changes as a whole. Wuthering Heights appears to be an especially apt piece of literature to exemplify these dynamics being at work as will be subsequently shown.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHowever, I will also arrive at the conclusion that a certain tendency in opinions concerning the novel overwhelms. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI will attempt to examine various aspects such as language, gender of the author and the estimation of ¿his¿ abilities, etc. in order to gain some insights.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe retracing of opinions will be supported by a second part of this research paper dealing with the time in which Emily Bronte created her first and only novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783640781515\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783640781515","offer_id":39442273435741,"sku":"9783640781515","price":17.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/60f46093-fb7b-48da-87be-5fedb66a3043.jpg?v=1777781804","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/emily-brontes-wuthering-heights-diversity-in-contemporary-reviews-von-ingo-westermann","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}