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Critics often comment on the importance of landscape in Wuthering Heights, and in this edition, Christopher Heywood locates the text more precisely than previous editions amid Yorkshire's limestone north and moorland south, drawing out the importance of the region's slaveholding society. Heywood also makes an important contribution to scholarship arguing persuasively for a re-structuring of the chapter and section breaks. Finally, this edition includes a variety of appendices that help to illuminate the novel's historical background.
Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Emily Brontë: A Brief Chronology
Introduction
The Wuthering Heights landscape
The story: symmetry
The marriage prohibition
Lockwood's Wilberforcean dreams
Africa and Yorkshire unchained
Signs of fertility
Note on the text
Wuthering Heights
Appendix A: The Chronology of Wuthering Heights
Appendix B: Literary Tradition
Appendix C: Family Histories
Appendix D: Documents
Landscape
John Hutton, Tour to the Caves (1781)
Emancipation
John Woolman, Journal (1776)
John Woolman, Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes (1754)
Slavery
'The Sorrows of Yamba'
Robert Brougham (1778-1868),'On the Immediate Emancipation of Negro Apprentices'
Blacks in England
'Samboo's Tomb' (1822)
Slavery in Yorkshire
The Leeds Mercury, 1831
Image of the Rocks
Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873)
The Brontës in Ireland
Alice Brontës Interview
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