Context links: Wuthering Heights

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Biographical background of Emily Brontë

• Charlotte Brontë
  
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Social / political context of Wuthering Heights

• The world of Victorian writers 1837 -1901
  
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    • Characteristics of Victorian Britain

Religious / philosophical context of Wuthering Heights

• The world of Victorian writers 1837 -1901
  • Making sense of the intangible world
    • Religion in Victorian England
    • Determinism and free will
• Impact of the Bible
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    • Judgement
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Literary context of Wuthering Heights

• Romanticism
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    • Landscape and the picturesque
  • Romanticism and rebellion
    • Wanderings of the outsider
• Features of Victorian literature
  • The role of fiction
    • Changing status of novels and the novelist
    • Gothic and sensation fiction
    • Moral improvement

Further study on Wuthering Heights

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