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Works of Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Bronte, Emily

Bronte, Emily
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Wuthering Heights

Still it would clearly be wrong to speak of Wuthering Heights as a
worldly book. The chief qualities of Emily Bronte's mind, as they emerge from
the story, are its lyrical bent and its mysticism. By mid-nineteenth century
standards, Wuthering Heights is indeed the rude, insular book a number of its
first critics found it. For where such authors as Jane Austen, George Eliot,
Thackeray and Trollope were representing man's chief struggle as essentially
a social one, Emily Bronte saw the principal human conflict as one between
the individual ...

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