This is a superb edition. The annotations bring the text to life in a new way, and, with its many illustrations, it is a pleasure to look at and to have in one's library.
Beth Newman, Southern Methodist University Emily Bront 's Wuthering Heights makes a splendid addition to the [Harvard University Press annotated] collection. Like all the other volumes in ... Read morethe Harvard series, it excels in visual elements that are not only stunningly produced and presented but useful as well...The editor of this annotated volume, Janet Gezari, presents a model introduction to Emily Bront 's work. Gezari is wonderfully hospitable in finding ways to welcome readers, new and old, into what can be an extremely formidable text by providing clear mapping of both the novel and the scholarship that surrounds it...If there were no other reason to buy this edition, Gezari's textual work would still make this a necessary purchase...Janet Gezari's edition of Wuthering Heights finds myriad ways to help us see anew Emily Bront 's masterpiece; this is a Wuthering Heights the reader will want to return to for many trips.
(11/01/2015) The Annotated Wuthering Heights provides those encountering the novel for the first time
as well as those returning to it
with a wide array of contexts in which to read Bront 's romantic masterpiece. Gezari explores the philosophical, historical, economic, political, and religious contexts of the novel and its connections with Bront 's other writing, particularly her poems. The annotations unpack Bront 's allusions to the Bible, Shakespeare, and her other reading; elucidate her references to topics including folklore, educational theory, and slavery; translate the thick Yorkshire dialect of Joseph, the surly, bigoted manservant at the Heights; and help with other difficult or unfamiliar words and phrases. Handsomely illustrated with many color images that vividly recreate both Bront 's world and the earlier Yorkshire setting of her novel, this newly edited and annotated text will delight and instruct the scholar and general reader alike.
(12/01/2014) [A] beautiful volume... Devotees of the work will beam with happiness at all the care and excess Gezari and her collaborators have lavished on Emily Bront 's weird, howling book. There are beautiful color photos on almost every page, everything from the faithful Bront dog to Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, and there are meaty discussions about every single aspect of the world of Wuthering Heights... Every fan of the book, new or old, will want to own it.
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