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Wuthering Heights: Character Studies
Dr Melissa Fegan
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Description for Wuthering Heights: Character Studies
Paperback. Character Studies. Series: Character Studies. 160 pages. Aims to promote sophisticated literary analysis through the concept of character. This series demonstrates the necessity of linking character analysis to texts' themes, issues and ideas, and encourages students to embrace the complexity of literary characters and the texts in which they appear. Cateogry: (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight: 194.
"Wuthering Heights" is studied by first-year undergraduates worldwide but students often find it difficult to approach the novel's characters in a sophisticated way; typically dwelling on the relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine, but without getting to grips with Bronte's complex development of these characters. Students also often forget that this novel, which is stereotyped as a novel about doomed love on the solitary Yorkshire moors, is in fact peopled with a large cast of idiosyncratic characters, each of whom plays an important part in the plot. Engaging with these characters will allow students to come to a better understanding of ... Read more
"Wuthering Heights" is studied by first-year undergraduates worldwide but students often find it difficult to approach the novel's characters in a sophisticated way; typically dwelling on the relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine, but without getting to grips with Bronte's complex development of these characters. Students also often forget that this novel, which is stereotyped as a novel about doomed love on the solitary Yorkshire moors, is in fact peopled with a large cast of idiosyncratic characters, each of whom plays an important part in the plot. Engaging with these characters will allow students to come to a better understanding of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780826493460
SKU
V9780826493460
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About Dr Melissa Fegan
Melissa Fegan is Reader in English and Deputy Director of the Centre for Victorian Studies at the University of Chester, UK.
Reviews for Wuthering Heights: Character Studies
"Melissa Fegan's study of the characters in the novel is both detailed and well-sourced" - The Use of English Briefly reviewed in the Year's work in English Studies journal, vol 89, No. 1 ‘Fegan is to be commended for her lack of pretentiousness, and clearly written, helpful prose'