Wothering heights is a novel of this great pantheistic e brilliance, if you like. Her language is always infused with the sense of something more, something other. The dialogue is about light and dark. It's about the way that love changes. If you deny your essential self, you will be cast out of heaven. Nothing will matter. So is all these different sorts of novels. And certainly the idea of nature writing. Without emily bronte, would there be the great willocatha? Would there be thegreat jack london? She was a true artist in that she cared only about the work. I think that makes wothering heights one of those completely different
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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