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Wuthering Heights Group Research Project: Early Reviews and Later Adaptations

Guide to resources.

Early Reviews and Later Adaptations

a.    Research the initial reactions and reviews to the novel (primary source).  Why were the reviews so mixed?
b.    How has the novel been translated and adapted in more recent ways?

Databases

Example of relevant article:

Popkin, Michael. “‘Wuthering Heights’ and Its ‘Spirit.’” Literature/Film Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 2, 1987, pp. 116–22. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/43796302. 

Example of relevant primary source:

"THE LITERARY EXAMINER." Examiner, 8 Jan. 1848. British Library Newspapers, link-gale-com.i.ezproxy.nypl.org/apps/doc/BB3200999793/BNCN?u=nypl&sid=bookmark-BNCN&xid=0f682070. 

Example of relevant article:

"REVIEWS." York Herald, 1 Feb. 1851, p. 6. British Library Newspapers, link-gale-com.i.ezproxy.nypl.org/apps/doc/R3211069398/BNCN?u=nypl&sid=bookmark-BNCN&xid=55a43d38. 

Example of primary source:

G. "Communications." Semi-Weekly Raleigh Register, 10 June 1848. Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers, link-gale-com.i.ezproxy.nypl.org/apps/doc/GT3012714920/NCNP?u=nypl&sid=bookmark-NCNP&xid=19b87645.