...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...

....” George Eliot: 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...

... 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...

... 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 discussion about the animalization of Heathcliff, a subject he introduced in his Yale Review...

... celebrations 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...

... readers’ complicity with the domestic ideology 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...

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... 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...

... 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 influence the actions of the other? Or could we not step back from Hammett...

... decades. Consider the way Robert Browning’s 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...