Wuthering Heights : The Writing in the Margin

by Maggie Berg

Series Robert Lecker, McGill University.Written in an easy-to-read, accessible style by teachers with years of classroom experience, MASTERWORK STUDIES are guides to the literary works most frequently studied in high school. Presenting ideas that spark imaginations, these books help students to gain background knowledge on great literature useful for papers and exams. The goal of each study is to encourage creative thinking by presenting engaging information about each work and its author. This approach allows students to arrive at sound analyses of their own, based on in-depth studies of popular literature. Each illuminates themes and concepts of a classic text; uses clear, conversational language; is an accessible, manageable length from 140 to 170 pages; includes a chronology of the authors life and era; provides an overview of the historical context; offers a summary of its critical reception; and lists primary and secondary sources and index.

Genres: Literary Criticism

160 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1996

About the author

Maggie Berg nació en Portsmouth, Inglaterra, y se crio en Hayling Island. Posteriormente, se trasladó a Canadá, donde desarrolló su carrera académica. Fue profesora de Literatura Inglesa en la Queen’s University, ubicada en Kingston, Ontario, hasta su jubilación en 2021. Su investigación se centró en la literatura victoriana, la teoría literaria, el género y la pedagogía. Entre sus obras se encuentran Jane Eyre: Portrait of a Life (1987) y Wuthering Heights: The Writing in the Margin (1996). Además, recibió varios premios por su excelencia en la enseñanza, incluyendo la Cátedra de Enseñanza y Aprendizaje de Queen’s University entre 2009 y 2012 .

Reviews

[Ellee · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book gave me a lot of insight into Wuthering Heights' enduring status as a classic. I think the reason I disliked it so violently was because I'd always heard it was a love story & that isn't the case at all. Heathcliff is pretty much a psychoand Catherine is a drama queen. Both are definitely narcissistic. Passionate, yes, but still damaged goods (I mean seriously, who'd dig up the corpse of their beloved - twice?).

I liked this analysis of the book because it discussed the fact that all the action in the book is interpreted through at least one filter (Lockwood) and mostly through 2 - Lockwood telling us what Nelly told him what she observed and what the other characters told her. I can appreciate the unreliable narrator aspect and I think I can more fully appreciate the text - even though I still find it disturbing.

I would definitely recommend the book - with the caveat that I think the readers should read something else *about* the book also. I definitely got a lot more out of it that way.