The Scholar's Armchair

In this wide-ranging interview, Brontë scholar Hilary Newman joins The Scholar’s Armchair to explore Wuthering Heights in depth—its unsettling characters, narrative complexity, violence, grief, religion, haunting, and radical departures from the Victorian novel. We discuss Heathcliff and sympathy, Emily Brontë’s narrative strategy, the problem of adaptation, alternative endings, authorship controversies, and modern critical approaches including grief theory. Along the way, we compare Wuthering Heights with Jane Eyre, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Dickens, and Virginia Woolf’s criticism of the Brontës.If you’ve read Wuthering Heights, this interview will give you some crucial new insights into the novel. If you’ve yet to read it, this interview will give you some key tips for getting the most out of it.=========================================================================Link to Hilary's book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Virginia-Woolf-Lives-Afterlives-Bront%C3%ABs/dp/1666940224Link to Hilary's paper 'Death and its Aftermath in Wuthering Heights': https://www.academia.edu/107752600/Death_and_its_Aftermath_in_Wuthering_HeightsLink to the Brontë Society: https://www.bronte.org.uk/about-us/the-bronte-society