Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights Analysis

Chapter 2. Emily Bronte and peculiarities of her world outlook

2.1 Events and facts that influenced E. Bronte’s literary conceptions.

English writer Emily Bronte (1818-1848) clearly stands as a unique writer in her singularly evocative literature. She is remembered primarily for her only novel, Wuthering Heights and solitude is indeed Emily Bronte's outstanding theme. She is preeminently a novelist of self-conscious expression, of an interior life focused on observation, imagination and introspection. And Emily's life was that of a representative solitary. Among writers and literaty critics who studied peculiarities of “Wuthering Heights” by E. Bronte are M.A Willy, T.A Volger, T.C Moser, J. Hillis Miller, F.R. Leavis and others.

There were several factors that influenced her literary consepts. In nineteenth century Britan underwent some particular important changes that influenced people. This period in history is called Victorian Britain. British manufacturing became dominant in the world and trade and the financial sector also grew significantly. Living in a village whose livelihood depended on wool, and which was close to the major manufacturing centres of Bradford and Halifax, the Brontës would have been very conscious of these developments.

The Brontës were familiar with the writings of the major romantic poets and the novels of Sir Walter Scott. The romantic elements in the Brontës' writings are obvious. Walter Pater saw in “Wuthering Heights” the characteristic spirit of romanticism, particularly in "the figures of Hareton Earnshaw, of Catherine Linton, and of Heathcliff–tearing open Catherine's grave, removing one side of her coffin, that he may really lie beside her in death–figures so passionate, yet woven on a background of delicately beautiful, moorland scenery, being typical examples of that