Gothic Elements from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë Emily Brontë. Since the number of these elements as well as the significance and timelessness of the novel itself far exceed the scope of this assignment, I will focus primarily on two major elements of Wuthering Heights that could be explored in light of the Gothic . It is about the setting of the novel (both exterior and interior) and a particular type of love that occurs between the two main characters, Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. To do this, I must first offer a brief explanation of the term gothic and how it applies to this novel; secondly, I will gain insight into the life of Emily Brontë (her life and work being so closely linked). Thirdly, I will pay full attention to the setting of the novel and the love story that unfolds there because, in my humble opinion, the particular combination of these two elements as well as its inverted and unconventional conception of morality give this novel its life force and timeless appeal. To put it simply, it eternalizes Wuthering Heights and makes it one of the greatest and most confusing English novels of all time. The Encyclopedia Britannica online edition defines Gothic literature as "pseudo-medieval fiction", filled with an atmosphere of mystery, terror and abuse. , which reached its peak in the 1790s, but underwent numerous revivals over the following centuries. According to EB, this literary fashion began in England with Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1765), but "continued to haunt the fiction of such important writers as the Brontë sisters […]". Bearing in mind that Wuthering Heights was ...... middle of paper ...... edited on the Internet from The Mountain Crown of Petar II Petrovic Njegos. Rastko Project-Digital Library of Serbian Culture, January 1, 2000. Web. March 10, 2014. .Bataj, Žorž. Književnost i zlo. Beograd: BIGZ, 1977. English translation taken from: < http://www.sauer-thompson.com/essays/Emily%20Bront.doc. >.Plyler Fisk, Nicole. Brontë novels and their early feminist companion texts. Ann Arbor: ProQuest, 2007. Parker, Patricia. Fat literary ladies: rhetoric, genre, ownership. London and New York: Methuen, 1987. Lovecraft, HP “Supernatural Horror in Literature.” Np, and Web. January 28, 2014. Gaskell, Elisabeth. “The Life of Charlotte Brontë”. Np, and Web. April 10. 2014. .

Essay / Gothic Elements from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë Emily Brontë. Since the number of these elements as well as the significance and timelessness of the novel itself far exceed the scope of this assignment, I will focus primarily on two major elements of Wuthering Heights that could be explored in light of the Gothic . It is about the setting of the novel (both exterior and interior) and a particular type of love that occurs between the two main characters, Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. To do this, I must first offer a brief explanation of the term gothic and how it applies to this novel; secondly, I will gain insight into the life of Emily Brontë (her life and work being so closely linked). Thirdly, I will pay full attention to the setting of the novel and the love story that unfolds there because, in my humble opinion, the particular combination of these two elements as well as its inverted and unconventional conception of morality give this novel its life force and timeless appeal. To put it simply, it eternalizes Wuthering Heights and makes it one of the greatest and most confusing English novels of all time. The Encyclopedia Britannica online edition defines Gothic literature as "pseudo-medieval fiction", filled with an atmosphere of mystery, terror and abuse. , which reached its peak in the 1790s, but underwent numerous revivals over the following centuries. According to EB, this literary fashion began in England with Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1765), but "continued to haunt the fiction of such important writers as the Brontë sisters […]". Bearing in mind that Wuthering Heights was ...... middle of paper ...... edited on the Internet from The Mountain Crown of Petar II Petrovic Njegos. Rastko Project-Digital Library of Serbian Culture, January 1, 2000. Web. March 10, 2014. .Bataj, Žorž. Književnost i zlo. Beograd: BIGZ, 1977. English translation taken from: < http://www.sauer-thompson.com/essays/Emily%20Bront.doc. >.Plyler Fisk, Nicole. Brontë novels and their early feminist companion texts. Ann Arbor: ProQuest, 2007. Parker, Patricia. Fat literary ladies: rhetoric, genre, ownership. London and New York: Methuen, 1987. Lovecraft, HP “Supernatural Horror in Literature.” Np, and Web. January 28, 2014. Gaskell, Elisabeth. “The Life of Charlotte Brontë”. Np, and Web. April 10. 2014. .

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