Wuthering Heights : lectures

We shall be reading Wuthering Heights from Emily's standpoint within the Bronte workshop and using mythology and mystifictions that he Brontes have generated. Bronte's poetry can be read as a revision of Romanticism and as a meditation on subjectivity in the modern epoche. References to trouble and storm will be seen in the context of both her prose and poetry. Wuthering Heights is a myth transformed by the epistemological change brought about by thermodynamics. Causality, temporality and truth are the categories which the narrative revises thus redefining the conditions of possibility of history. The hero's trajectory is used as a means of exploring the consequences of such a revolution. It also allows for the emergence of a new subject inscribed within an evolutionist scheme. Having burnt its (hypo) Text, Wuthering Heights becomes then the New Testament of the naturalist era.