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..., and raising an infernal dust as she extinguished the flames with heaps of cinders. This spectacle drove me back immediately; I took my hat, and, after a four miles walk, arrived at Heathcliff's garden gate just in time to escape the first feathery flakes of a snow shower” (9). As readers, we are introduced...

...Deborah Lutz Heathcliff is in love with someone who has died. This love is steeped in the evangelical death culture of the time, particularly the treasuring of the physical manifestations of dying and the body: a reverence for relics. Understanding mortality—and, in fact, the love between Catherine...

... functions as the affective link between Brontë's feminist concerns—the implications of Catherine's (failed) rebellion—and the harrowing image of what Susan Meyer and others have framed as the colonial other inflicting anticolonial revenge and oppression on the British domestic scene: Heathcliff. After...

...: A Collection of Critical Essays . Ed. George R. Creeger. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1970 . 11 –36. ———. “‘Hush, Hush! He's a Human Being’: A Psychological Approach to Heathcliff.” Men by Women . Ed. Todd , Janet . New York: Meier, 1982 . 101 –17. ———. Rereading George Eliot: Changing...

... Goesler do eventually marry, after a delay of hundreds of pages spanning two novels, but Brontë's Catherine and Heathcliff do not, and the interactions between them that Jarvis calls masochistic occur long after marriage has ceased even to be an option. Jarvis is not concerned with the relationship...

... of light amusements, engage the weightiest of topics by reenacting the larger condition of the era. “The Victorians . . . ​ in considerable numbers, located modernity—felt its presence most powerfully—in the interstices of play” (3). Thus Heathcliff and Cathy’s secretive childhood play on the moors...

... by midcentury was to develop one's sensibility and sympathy through the vicarious experience of reading narratives of animal suffering, which allow the reader to stake a claim to his or her own humanity” (49). In the long section of this chapter titled “Creature Heathcliff,” Kreilkamp launches a brilliant...

... of sympathy as the basis of marriage. In Wuthering Heights, the paradigmatic reader is Lockwood. Through him, Brontë overturns all notions of sympathetic reading as productive of a better self. The Catherine-Heathcliff relation is frequently read romantically as a marriage of minds, yet Brontë...

.... Norton Critical Editions Series. New York: Norton, 1973 . Eagleton , Terry . Heathcliff and the Great Hunger: Studies in Irish Culture . London: Verso, 1995 . Forster , E. M. Aspects of the Novel . New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1927 . Godwin , William . St. Leon: A Tale...

... since 1790 . Oxford: Oxford UP, 1997 . Eagleton , Terry . Heathcliff and the Great Hunger . London: Verso, 1995 . Fanning , Ronan . “Mr. De Valera Drafts a Constitution.” De Valera's Constitution and Ours . Ed. Brian Farrell. Dublin: Gill, 1988 . Gaonkar , Dilip Parameshwar...

.... Gillespie and Moran. 95 –121. Dunne , Tom . “Haunted by History: Irish Romantic Writing, 1800–1850.” Ed. Roy Porter and Mikulás Teich. Romanticism in a National Context . Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1988 . 68 –91. Eagleton , Terry . Heathcliff and the Great Hunger: Studies in Irish...

...-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God” ( 10 )? Could we read Catherine and Heathcliff as some sort of bizarre quantum-psychological entanglement, where the actions of one—no matter the distance, beyond even death—forever...

... ), these sentences suggest how the relationship between Kathy and Tommy more nearly resembles the filial bond uniting George Eliot 's Maggie and Tom Tulliver than, say, the ecstatic passion of Emily Brontë's Heathcliff and Cathy (and, of course, when Ishiguro makes Kathy and Tommy look like brother and sister, he...

... Bishop of St. Praxed’s muses on his tomb’s “[c]lammy squares which sweat / As if the corpse they keep were oozing through” (lines 116–17), or Heathcliff’s desire that sliding panels be placed on the sides of both his coffin and Cathy’s so that the pair can rot together (Bront...