Wuthering Heights

Maggie Berg

This addition to Twayne's Masterwork Studies presents an engaging and provocative appraisal of Bronte's novel, arguing that Wuthering Heights is about margins and marginality - the perceptions and uses of domestic, bodily, and textual spaces by men and women. The most revealing object of this focus, asserts Maggie Berg, is Catherine's diary, written in the blank spaces of culturally revered tomes and reflecting Catherine's oppression by and rebellion against a patriarchal society. Wuthering Heights, Berg avers, "offers a striking demonstration of how patriarchal ideology can issue in the abuse of women and children, and, more importantly, it demonstrates women's creative ways of resisting oppression.". In discussions centering on the historical, literary, and critical contexts of the novel, Berg points to its enduring ability to agitate readers, to seize the popular imagination, to...

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