Table of Contents

Introduction; A summary of the plot; What is Wuthering Heights about? Why does Bronte use so many narrators? Can we trust Lockwood? Is Nelly Dean also a bad judge? Is old Earnshaw Heathcliff's father? How does Heathcliff's arrival affect the Earnshaw household? Why does Cathy marry Edgar Linton? What should we make of Catherine's "Nelly, I am Heathcliff!" speech? How seriously should we take the violence in Wuthering Heights? What makes Heathcliff plot revenge? A short chronology; Ten facts.

About the Author

Professor Graham Bradshaw is the author of Shakespeare's Scepticism, described by Harold Bloom as "one of the half-dozen or so best modern books about Shakespeare" and numerous other books and essays. A former Professor of English at Chuo University in Tokyo and before that a Reader at the University of St Andrews, he began his career at Cambridge. He is now an Honorary Professor of English and Fine Arts at the University of Queensland.