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'The Wuther of the Other in "Wuthering Heights"'
Steven Vine
Nineteenth-Century Literature, Volume: 49, Issue: 3, Pages: 339 - 359
Swansea University Author: Steven Vine
Abstract
The essay offers a reading of 'Wuthering Heights' that con¬siders aspects of the novel’s metaphor of ‘wuthering.’ It shows how 'Wuthering Heights' is about instability on multiple levels, specifically in relation to its presentation of subjectivity and desire. The essay argues th...
| Published in: | Nineteenth-Century Literature |
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1994
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa17975 |
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The essay offers a reading of 'Wuthering Heights' that con¬siders aspects of the novel’s metaphor of ‘wuthering.’ It shows how 'Wuthering Heights' is about instability on multiple levels, specifically in relation to its presentation of subjectivity and desire. The essay argues that the novel stages the incursion of ‘otherness’ into the literary modes on which it draws, and into the constituted structures of the Victorian world – introducing a ‘wuthering’ into stable cultural forms and deconstituting bourgeois subjectivities with the force of derangement and delirium. In this latter connec¬tion, the essay draws on the work of psychoanalytic theorist Julia Kristeva to show how the text’s ‘wuthering’ follows a logic of delirious desire. |
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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3 |
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339 |
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359 |