呼啸山庄:WUTHERING HEIGHTS

《呼啸山庄》19世纪英国女作家艾米莉·勃朗特经典代表作，《呼啸山庄》小说出版后一直被认为是英国文学史上一部“奇特的小说”。 《呼啸山庄》一反同时代作品普遍存在的伤感主义情调，而以强烈的爱、狂暴的恨及由之而起的无情的报复，取代了低沉的伤感和忧郁。虽然刚开始时曾被人看做是年轻女作家脱离现实的天真幻想，但结合其所描写地区激烈的阶级斗争和英国的社会现象，不久后便被评论界高度肯定，并受到读者的热烈欢迎。根据这部《呼啸山庄》小说改编的影视作品至今久演不衰。

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Wuthering Heights is Emily Brontë’s only novel. Written between October1845 and June 1846,Wuthering Heights was published in 1847 under the pseudonym “Ellis Bell”; Brontë died the following year, aged 30. Wuthering Heights andAnne Brontë’s Agnes Grey were acceptedby publisher Thomas Newby before the success

of their sister Charlotte’s novel, Jane Eyre . After Emily’s death, Charlotte edited the manu* of Wuthering Heights , andarranged for the edited version to be published as a posthumous second editionin 1850.

Although Wuthering Heights is now widely regarded as aclassic of English literature, contemporary reviews for the novel were deeplypolarised; it was considered controversial because its depiction of mental andphysical cruelty

was unusually stark, and it challenged strict Victorianideals of the day regarding religious hypocrisy, morality, social classes andgender inequality. The English poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti,although an admirer of the book, referred to it as “A fiend of a book – an incredible monster [...] The action is laid in hell, – only it seems places and people have English names there.”