{"product_id":"determining-wuthering-heights-9781433177477","title":"Determining Wuthering Heights","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecent criticism on Emily Brontë and her novel has tried to correct the deep-rooted belief that Emily Brontë was a literary genius isolated in the moors of Haworth. Indeed, an overview of recent Brontë scholarship indicates that two important critical shifts have lately cropped up: an increasing sociological attention to cultural studies on the one hand and an emphasis on interdisciplinarity. The present book is an unprecedented and groundbreaking study on \u003ci\u003eWuthering Heights. \u003c\/i\u003eIt detaches itself from the current productive vogue for sociological approaches to narrative texts which has contributed to obscure the focus on anomalous intertextual relations, and prioritizes the literary context over any other biographical, historical, or cultural context. \u003ci\u003eDetermining Wuthering Heights \u003c\/i\u003epostulates a determinate intertextual meaning of Emily Brontë's novel\u003ci\u003e,\u003c\/i\u003e enriching its heterogeneity by examining its dialogic relation with previous, contemporary and subsequent texts in o\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eDetermining Wuthering Heights: Ideology, Intertexts, Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e places Emily Bronte’s novel within an exceptionally broad literary context, exploring its links to a range of genres and traditions, English and non-English alike. \u003ci\u003eWuthering Heights\u003c\/i\u003e, María Valero Redondo demonstrates with an impressive command of eighteenth and nineteenth-century literature, is not an anomaly it is sometimes thought to be, but rather a novel that participates in a network of complex intertextual connections.”—Aleksandar Stevic, Assistant Professor of English, Lingnan University, Hong Kong\u003cbr\u003e“This book puts right the prevailing critical tradition that \u003ci\u003eWuthering Heights\u003c\/i\u003e is an isolated anomaly in the evolution of the English Victorian novel. By means of a set of detailed analyses of relevant eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century works in relation to \u003ci\u003eWuthering Heights\u003c\/i\u003e, the author convincingly proves its full integration in the literary context of the period. Her attempt provides moreover a new lease of life for intertextuality studies, which had languished for at least two decades now under the pressure of critical movements more concerned with the ‘absolute’ meaning yielded by this work when looked at from different angles (biographical, historical, Marxist, feminist, post-colonial, etc.) than with its links across a dense meaning-making network of intertextual relations. In order to argue her point, María Valero Redondo places \u003ci\u003eWuthering Heights\u003c\/i\u003e in conversation with texts ranging from Richardson’s Pamela (1740) to Dickens’s \u003ci\u003eGreat Expectations\u003c\/i\u003e (1861), including predictable narratives such as Charlotte Brontë’s \u003ci\u003eJane Eyre\u003c\/i\u003e (1847) and \u003ci\u003eShirley\u003c\/i\u003e (1849), but also mildly startling ones such as Matthew Lewis’s \u003ci\u003eThe Monk\u003c\/i\u003e (1796), Byron’s poem \u003ci\u003eManfred\u003c\/i\u003e (1817), and Heinrich von Kleist’s \u003ci\u003eNovellen\u003c\/i\u003e, especially \u003ci\u003eDer Findling\u003c\/i\u003e. I am happy to endorse the publication of this book for a number of reasons. First, for the originality and novelty of its attempt. Valero Redondo’s critical method is much more than a mere philological hunt for sources and echoes; it comes closer, in my view, to Eliot’s systematic, synchronic conception of literary tradition as the sum total of combined efforts that shape the ever-spiralling trajectory of verbal art. Second, for the impressive breadth of the textual material she brings to bear on her intertextual study of \u003ci\u003eWuthering Heights\u003c\/i\u003e. This gives her critical conclusions a strong air of assurance and dependability. And third, for her successful effort to reinstate intertextual studies in the current critical mainstream. I have no doubt that this book will fully satisfy scholars and specialists in the nineteenth-century English novel, literary theorists in search of new, or newly updated, critical methods, and less specialized readers willing to know if Emily Brontë’s \u003ci\u003eWuthering Heights\u003c\/i\u003e actually constitutes the irreducible singularity we have been led to believe by standard criticism.”—José A. Álvarez-Amorós, Professor of English Literature and Criticism, Universidad de Alicante, Spain\u003cbr\u003e“A paradigm case for formalist, structuralist, deconstructive, Marxist, historicist, psychoanalytic, feminist, and post-colonialist critics, \u003ci\u003eWuthering Heights\u003c\/i\u003e, like the films of Alfred Hitchcock, the paintings of Picasso or the music of Beethoven, has long been in danger of disappearing beneath the sheer, accumulated weight of sophisticated theoretical commentary. Designated by F. R. Leavis as a ‘kind of sport’ for critics, the novel itself has receded into the background, made overly familiar as a result of its gratifying unfamiliarity. Now, in her pathbreaking study of this most over-read of novels, María Valero Redondo reveals what has been hiding all along in plain sight: \u003ci\u003eWuthering Heights\u003c\/i\u003e is not the infinitely pliable text beloved of the theorists, nor, for that matter, is it an anomaly in the history of the novel, admired for its \u003ci\u003esui generis\u003c\/i\u003e flouting of literary conventions and its punkish affronts to Victorian morality. Rather than re-tread this tired ground, Valero Redondo invites us to regard the novel as a carefully conceived response to a range of past, contemporary and future novels, novellas and poems: from Richardson’s \u003ci\u003ePamela,\/i\u0026gt; to Charlotte Brontë’s \u003ci\u003eJane Eyre\u003c\/i\u003e; from Kleist’s \u003ci\u003eDer Findling\u003c\/i\u003e to Matthew Lewis’s \u003ci\u003eThe Monk\u003c\/i\u003e; and from Byron’s \u003ci\u003eManfred\u003c\/i\u003e to Dickens’s \u003ci\u003eGreat Expectations\u003c\/i\u003e, the meaning of \u003ci\u003eWuthering Heights\u003c\/i\u003e is located in a long history of intertextual participation, influence, and struggle. Bringing to the fore formal encounters and ideological confrontations that have not been sufficiently appreciated by critics, \u003ci\u003eDetermining Wuthering Heights: Ideology, Intertexts, Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e makes a fresh and important contribution to Brontë studies and to the study of the novel.”—Philip Shaw, Associate Professor of English Language and Old English, University of Leicester, United Kingdom\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements – Introduction – An Overview of \u003ci\u003eWuthering Heights’ \u003c\/i\u003eCritical Reception: Problems and Omissions – \u003ci\u003eWuthering Heights\u003c\/i\u003e: \"The Housekeeper’s Tale\" – \u003ci\u003eWuthering Heights \u003c\/i\u003eand Kleist’s \u003ci\u003eNovellen\u003c\/i\u003e: Rousseauian Nature, Implosive Communities and the Performative Subversion of the Law – \u003ci\u003eWuthering Heights\u003c\/i\u003e: A Gothic Novel – \u003ci\u003eWuthering Heights\u003c\/i\u003e: An Epic Poem – \u003ci\u003eWuthering Heights\u003c\/i\u003e: A Social Novel – \u003ci\u003eWuthering Heights\u003c\/i\u003e: A \u003cem\u003eBildungsroman \u003c\/em\u003e– Conclusions – \u003cem\u003eAfterword by Julián Jiménez Heffernan \u003c\/em\u003e– Index\u003cem\u003e. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039671124311,"sku":"9781433177477","price":74.07,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781433177477.jpg?v=1750944436","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/determining-wuthering-heights-9781433177477","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}