Wuthering Heights

KEY FACTS 

•Full Title: Wuthering Heights 

• When Published: 1847 

• Literary Period: Victorian 

• Genre: Romanticism / Realism / Gothic (e.g., mysterious family relationships, vulnerable heroines, houses full of secrets, and wild landscapes) 

• Setting: Yorkshire, England, late 18th to early 19th century 

• Climax: Heathcliff and Catherine's tearful, impassioned reunion just hours before Catherine gives birth and then dies 

• Antagonist: Heathcliff (we root both for and against Heathcliff) 

• Point of View: Nelly Dean, a housekeeper, tells the story of the Lintons and Earnshaws to Mr. Lockwood, who passes