Emily Brontë's Gothic Intricacy Summary

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CHAPTER THREE

Emily Brontë’s Gothic Intricacy No coward soul is mine – Emily Brontë 1

3.1. A Brief Biography

Emily Brontë is an English Victorian novelist and poet. She is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English literature. Emily is best remembered for her only famous novel, Wuthering Heights (1847) which is considered as a piece of exquisite work in world literature and remains a mysterious riddle in English literature.2
Emily Brontë was born on July 30, 1818 in Yorkshire, England. Emily’s biographical information is scattered. She did not make any friendships outside her family. Her sister Charlotte is the main source of information about her. Emily remained an obscure, mysterious figure; …show more content…

Everything around her has its impact on her. It is not possible to speak about Emily without mentioning her relation with her brother and sisters: Branwell , Charlotte and Anne . On their childhood they create some imaginative stories about toy soldiers which Mr. Bronte has gifted to Branwell after one of his trips. Posteriorly, they begin to write long adventures and romances and create their own distinctive and imaginative worlds, the Gondal Saga.7 In 1845, Emily, Charlotte and Anne published a volume of poetry , using fake male names to prevent prejudice against their gender , entitled as Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell , though two copies only were sold, they did not give up, and Emily begin to write Wuthering Heights and it was published in 1847.7 Critic Philip Allingham, writes concerning their gender:

Emily and her sisters took over pseudonyms to hide their gender because of the many prejudices against women authors. The failure of their poems did not dishearten the girls; it made them write even more which lead Emily to write her best novel, Wuthering …show more content…

Though the novel is regarded as Gothic but Emily deviates in her writing of this novel from some of these gothic conventions. Critics have much debates concerning the novel’s category. J. Hillis Miller and Nancy Armstrong claim that Wuthering Heights belongs to the genre of Victorian Realism .20 Others like David Stevens and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick impute the novel to the Gothic genre . While Alison Milbank ascribes that the novel is “realist supernatural within a Gothic plot”. 21 Emily presents gothic elements in a distinctive way, the Gothic moments in the novel arise from the

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