Wuthering Heights
KEY FACTS
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