ASSIGNMENT
The gothic genre explores our own personal fears. How far is this true of Wuthering Heights and The Bloody Chamber?
Resources:
York Notes Advanced – These are revision guides for A-Level students, but they are widely available and contain summaries of some different critics’ views. They can be a good way to get started on your further reading. There are York Notes for both Wuthering Heights (by Claire Steele) and The Bloody Chamber (by Steve Roberts).
David Stevens The Gothic Tradition (Cambridge Contexts in Literature, CUP, 2000)
Linda H. Peterson (Ed.) Wuthering Heights: Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism (St. Martin’s Press, 1992)
Patricia Ingham The Brontes: Authors in Context (OUP, Oxford, 2008)
Victorian Web is useful academic website for learning about Wuthering Heights and its historical context.
Another good website is the British Library, and there are some interesting articles
here: https://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/themes/the-gothic
Broadsheet newspaper websites are also a good place to look for reviews of authors and their work, such as: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/01/angela-carter-far- from-fairytale-edmund-gordon. These can sometimes be controversial or argumentative, for example: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jul/21/emily-bronte-strange-cult- wuthering-heights-romantic-novel
