英语本科毕业论文-Wuthering Heights---a Female Gothic Novel参考.docVIP

Wuthering Heightsa Female Gothic Novel I. Introduction Emily Bront? is an English woman writer of superb talent during the Victorian Age. She is well known for her only novel Wuthering Heights, a strange and powerful book, said by many to be the finest novel in the English language. Since it was published, this great book suffered people’s attack and criticism. These who censured it regarded it a book full of abnormal psychology and heathenish thought. “Anyone who did read it was repulsed by the brutality and violence of the characters” (James, 1979:7) and by the fact that it differed so much