The first bit of the novel is lockwood he arrives, and he goes back to the grange where he's staying. He wants to know the whole story of heathcliff, the strange household. And this is how the novel, if you like, gets going. Everything at wuthering heights appens in the kitchen. The servants and the masters and the mistresses eat together, or starve together in the kitchen,. That is the grange. There is the danger and the violence and the emotions that are shared betweenwen men and women at w Cumberland Heights. A great critics has called it one of the most effectively structured novels in the english language.
Jane Austen created the definitive picture of Georgian England. No writer matches Austen’s sensitive ear for the hypocrisy and irony lurking beneath the genteel conversation. That’s the argument of the Janeites, but to the aficionados of Emily Brontë they are the misguided worshippers of a circumscribed mind. In Wuthering Heights, Brontë dispensed with Austen’s niceties and the upper-middle class drawing rooms of Bath and the home counties. Her backdrop is the savage Yorkshire moors, her subject the all-consuming passions of the heart. To help you decide who should be crowned queen of English letters we have the lined up the best advocates to make the case for each writer. In this event, chaired by author and critic Erica Wagner, we invited guests including author Kate Mosse, Professor and author John Mullan, and actors Mariah Gale, Samuel West and Dominic West, to discuss each writer's influence.
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