Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë's moor novel: Heathcliff's revenge burns through two generations of two houses.

Specifications & Metrics

author

Emily Brontë

type

Gothic novel

era

Victorian (1847)

language

English

setting

The Yorkshire moors

parts

2 volumes

Relative Scale in Novels

Core Principles & Analysis

• Published in December 1847 under the pen name Ellis Bell.
• Lockwood and Nelly Dean frame the story in nested narration.
• Its amoral violence baffled early reviewers before the century caught up.

Sources

• Wikipedia: Wuthering Heights