急需《呼啸山庄》写作背景!最好是英文的啊~

急需《呼啸山庄》写作背景!最好是英文的啊~
急需《呼啸山庄》写作背景!最好是英文的啊~

急需《呼啸山庄》写作背景!最好是英文的啊~
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还有一个叫 PINKMONKEY.COM
Wuthering Heights,which has long been one of the most popular and highly regarded novels in English literature,seemed to hold little promise when it was published in 1847,selling very poorly and receiving only a few mixed reviews.Victorian readers found the book shocking and inappropriate in its depiction of passionate,ungoverned love and cruelty (despite the fact that the novel portrays no sex or bloodshed),and the work was virtually ignored.Even Emily Brontë’s sister Charlotte—an author whose works contained similar motifs of Gothic love and desolate landscapes—remained ambivalent toward the unapologetic intensity of her sister’s novel.In a preface to the book,which she wrote shortly after Emily Brontë’s death,Charlotte Brontë stated,“Whether it is right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff,I do not know.I scarcely think it is.”
Emily Brontë lived an eccentric,closely guarded life.She was born in 1818,two years after Charlotte and a year and a half before her sister Anne,who also became an author.Her father worked as a church rector,and her aunt,who raised the Brontë children after their mother died,was deeply religious.Emily Brontë did not take to her aunt’s Christian fervor; the character of Joseph,a caricature of an evangelical,may have been inspired by her aunt’s religiosity.The Brontës lived in Haworth,a Yorkshire village in the midst of the moors.These wild,desolate expanses—later the setting of Wuthering Heights—made up the Brontës’ daily environment,and Emily lived among them her entire life.She died in 1848,at the age of thirty.
As witnessed by their extraordinary literary accomplishments,the Brontë children were a highly creative group,writing stories,plays,and poems for their own amusement.Largely left to their own devices,the children created imaginary worlds in which to play.Yet the sisters knew that the outside world would not respond favorably to their creative expression; female authors were often treated less seriously than their male counterparts in the nineteenth century.Thus the Brontë sisters thought it best to publish their adult works under assumed names.Charlotte wrote as Currer Bell,Emily as Ellis Bell,and Anne as Acton Bell.Their real identities remained secret until after Emily and Anne had died,when Charlotte at last revealed the truth of their novels’ authorship.
Today,Wuthering Heights has a secure position in the canon of world literature,and Emily Brontë is revered as one of the finest writers—male or female—of the nineteenth century.Like Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre,Wuthering Heights is based partly on the Gothic tradition of the late eighteenth century,a style of literature that featured supernatural encounters,crumbling ruins,moonless nights,and grotesque imagery,seeking to create effects of mystery and fear.But Wuthering Heights transcends its genre in its sophisticated observation and artistic subtlety.The novel has been studied,analyzed,dissected,and discussed from every imaginable critical perspective,yet it remains unexhausted.And while the novel’s symbolism,themes,structure,and language may all spark fertile exploration,the bulk of its popularity may rest on its unforgettable characters.As a shattering presentation of the doomed love affair between the fiercely passionate Catherine and Heathcliff,it remains one of the most haunting love stories in all of literature.

The narrative is non-linear, involving several flashbacks, and involves two narrators - Mr. Lockwood and Nelly Dean. The novel opens in 1801, with Lockwood arriving at Thrushcross Grange, a grand hous...

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The narrative is non-linear, involving several flashbacks, and involves two narrators - Mr. Lockwood and Nelly Dean. The novel opens in 1801, with Lockwood arriving at Thrushcross Grange, a grand house on the Yorkshire moors he is renting from the surly Heathcliff, who lives at nearby Wuthering Heights. Lockwood spends the night at Wuthering Heights and has a terrifying dream: the ghost of Catherine Earnshaw, pleading to be admitted to the house from outside. Intrigued, Lockwood asks the housekeeper Nelly Dean to tell the story of Heathcliff and Wuthering Heights while he is staying at the Grange recovering from a cold.
Nelly takes over the narration and begins her story thirty years earlier, when Heathcliff, a foundling living on the streets of Liverpool, is brought to Wuthering Heights by the then-owner, Mr. Earnshaw, and raised as his own. Earnshaw's daughter Catherine becomes Heathcliff's inseparable friend. Her brother Hindley, however, resents Heathcliff, seeing him as an interloper and rival. Mr. Earnshaw dies three years later, and Hindley (who has married a woman named Frances) takes over the estate. He brutalises Heathcliff, forcing him to work as a hired hand. Catherine becomes friends with a neighbor family, the Lintons of Thrushcross Grange, who mellow her initially wild personality. She is especially attached to the refined and mild young Edgar Linton, whom Heathcliff instantaneously dislikes.
A year later, Hindley's wife dies, apparently of consumption, shortly after giving birth to a son, Hareton; Hindley takes to drink. Some two years after that, Catherine agrees to marry Edgar. Nelly knows that this will crush Heathcliff, and Heathcliff overhears Catherine's explanation that it would be "degrading" to marry him. Heathcliff storms out and leaves Wuthering Heights, not hearing Catherine's continuing declarations that Heathcliff is as much a part of her as the rocks are to the earth beneath. Catherine marries Edgar, and is initially very happy. Some time later, Heathcliff returns, intent on destroying those who prevent him from being with Catherine. He has, mysteriously, become very wealthy, and has duped Hindley into making him the heir to Wuthering Heights. Intent on ruining Edgar, Heathcliff elopes with Edgar's sister Isabella, which places him in a position to inherit Thrushcross Grange upon Edgar's death.
Catherine becomes very ill after Heathcliff's return and dies a few hours after giving birth to a daughter also named Catherine, or Cathy. Heathcliff becomes only more bitter and vengeful. Isabella flees her abusive marriage a month later, and subsequently gives birth to a boy, Linton. At around the same time, Hindley dies. Heathcliff takes ownership of Wuthering Heights, and vows to raise Hindley's son Hareton with as much neglect as he had suffered at Hindley's hands years earlier.
Twelve years later, the dying Isabella asks Edgar to raise her and Heathcliff's son, Linton. However, Heathcliff finds out about this and takes the sickly, spoiled child to Wuthering Heights. Heathcliff has nothing but contempt for his son, but delights in the idea of him ruling the property of his enemies. To that end, a few years later, Heathcliff attempts to persuade young Cathy to marry Linton. Cathy refuses, so Heathcliff kidnaps her and forces the two to marry. Soon after, Edgar Linton dies, followed shortly by Linton Heathcliff. This leaves Cathy a widow and a virtual prisoner at Wuthering Heights, as Heathcliff has gained complete control of both Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. It is at this point in the narrative that Lockwood arrives, taking possession of Thrushcross Grange, and hearing Nelly Dean's story. Shocked, Lockwood leaves for London.
During his absence from the area, however, events reach a climax that Nelly describes when he returns a year later. Cathy gradually softens toward her rough, uneducated cousin Hareton, just as her mother grew tender towards Heathcliff. When Heathcliff realizes that Cathy and Hareton are in love, he abandons his life-long vendetta. He dies broken and tormented, but glad to be rejoining Catherine, whose ghost had haunted him since she died. Cathy and Hareton marry. Heathcliff is buried next to Catherine (the elder), and the story concludes with Lockwood visiting the grave, unsure of what to fe

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