Black Flower: A Corpus Approach to the Gothic Novel Wuthering Heights

Emily Bronte’s novel, Wuthering Heights, is a gothic novel with an innovative stance. Gothic elements permeate the story, but it is not a gothic novel in the traditional sense of the word. The fantastic tales so popular in the eighteenth century alienated the reader by creating phantasmagorical worlds. Emily Bronte, however, grounded her gothic world firmly in reality. Through an analytical approach, the author aims to show, in this article, how Emily Bronte reversed gothic conventions to create a gothic reality whose message is still relevant today. The author will show that her use of the gothic mode was an attempt to capture the real essence of life, anticipating the metaphysical theories of D. H. Lawrence, who wrote at the end of the nineteenth century. By highlighting her innate understanding of human nature , this article will focus on her affinity with Lawrence and the celebration of man’s powerful primal instincts. This article hinges on the premise that she deplored the mechanical restrictions of the society in which she lived. The author aims to show that her Gothicism is, paradoxically, synonymous with a search for life.

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Gothic Reality: A Study of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights

10.31235/osf.io/r843x ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Roumaissa Moussaoui

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Eighteenth Century ◽

Human Nature ◽

Analytical Approach ◽

Emily Bronte ◽

Gothic Novel ◽

Wuthering Heights ◽

Relevant Today ◽

Traditional Sense ◽

Real Essence

Emily Bronte’s novel, Wuthering Heights, is a gothic novel with an innovative stance. Gothic elements permeate the story, but it is not a gothic novel in the traditional sense of the word. The fantastic tales so popular in the eighteenth century alienated the reader by creating phantasmagorical worlds. Emily Bronte, however, grounded her gothic world firmly in reality. Through an analytical approach, the author aims to show, in this article, how Emily Bronte reversed gothic conventions to create a gothic reality whose message is still relevant today. The author will show that her use of the gothic mode was an attempt to capture the real essence of life, anticipating the metaphysical theories of D. H. Lawrence, who wrote at the end of the nineteenth century. By highlighting her innate understanding of human nature , this article will focus on her affinity with Lawrence and the celebration of man’s powerful primal instincts. This article hinges on the premise that she deplored the mechanical restrictions of the society in which she lived. The author aims to show that her Gothicism is, paradoxically, synonymous with a search for life.

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(Wuthering Heights as a Gothic Novel)

IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science ◽

10.9790/0837-2207010105 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 22 (07) ◽

pp. 01-05

Author(s):

Mushtaq Ahmed Kadhim Aldewan

Keyword(s):

Gothic Novel ◽

Wuthering Heights

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The Starving Sex: Psychoanalysis of Gendered Identity Crisis in the Gothic Novel

Sumerianz Journal of Education, Linguistics and Literature ◽

10.47752/sjell.312.277.281 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 277-281

Author(s):

Mujtaba Al-Hilo ◽

Hayder Gebreen

Keyword(s):

Historical Context ◽

Identity Crisis ◽

Social Conditions ◽

The Unconscious ◽

Gothic Novel ◽

Gendered Identity ◽

Wuthering Heights ◽

Patriarchal Ideology ◽

Shed Light ◽

The Way

This paper investigates the socio-historical context in which the Gothic novel appeared. It seeks to shed light on the psychological side of this debut. One of the problems of recent studies in this regard is that they tend to detach the appearance of the Gothic novel from the historical context that gave birth to this genre. This leads to inaccurate findings and conclusions because this genre rose out of necessity. It was a method of fighting back the suppressive social conditions from which females suffered. This study is necessary to reveal the oppressive context females endured, and how that patriarchal ideology was universally and rationally justified and eluded any possible questioning. This suppressive condition was deeply rooted in the unconscious of subjects. Gothic novel was a revolution against that prevailing ideology, socially, religiously, and intellectually. It was considered a form of atheism. In this regard, this paper seeks to question the validity of the appearance of this genre and the way it is justified. It also presents a host of findings that displays the necessity out of which this genre rose, with references to Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights and Mathew Lewis’ The Monk.

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