The introduction and appendices to this Broadview edition, which place Brontรซโs life and novel in the context of the developing โBrontรซ myth,โ explore the impact of industrialization on the people of Yorkshire, consider the novelโs representation of gender, and survey the ways contemporary scholarship has sought to account for Heathcliff, open up multiple contexts within which Wuthering Heights can be read, understood, and enjoyed.
Beth Newman is an Associate Professor of English at Southern Methodist University.