Timelines in Emily Brontës «Wuthering Heights». Michael Weber

Timelines in Emily Brontës «Wuthering Heights»

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Michael Weber

Timelines in Emily Brontë’s
Wuthering Heights

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The cover shows a reverse woodblock print by Vanessa Bell,

which was used as the cover illustration for C. P. Sanger’s 1926 essay

The Structure of Wuthering Heights published by The Hogarth Press.

The German First Edition was published in 2017 under the title

“Die Chronologie von Emily Brontës Wuthering Heights”

as Vol. 2 of this same series.

Edited and translated into English by Catherine Campbell.

ISSN 0935-4093

ISBN 978-3-631-80555-8 (Print) ∙ E-ISBN 978-3-631-82435-1 (E-Book)

E-ISBN 978-3-631-82436-8 (EPUB) ∙ E-ISBN 978-3-631-82437-5 (MOBI)

DOI 10.3726/b17084

Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

Berlin 2020

Peter Lang – Berlin ∙ Bern ∙ Bruxelles ∙ New York ∙

Oxford ∙ Warszawa ∙ Wien

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About the author

Michael Weber was a professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Freiburg, Germany. As a scientist, he is fascinated by the temporal structure of Wuthering Heights and has extensively explored literary paradoxes in medicine and literature.

About the book

The temporal structure of Wuthering Heights has long been regarded as opaque or even flawed. This is explained by the fact that the years 1778, 1801 and 1802 do not entirely cohere with the numerous relative time references in the novel if, as scholarship contends, the years 1801 and 1802 refer to Ellen Dean’s narration of the story. By means of mathematically precise calculations and a grammatical analysis of the text, this critical new approach argues that the time frame of Wuthering Heights is sound if the years 1801 and 1802 date the writing of Mr. Lockwood’s diary. The crucial differentiation between the recording of Mr. Lockwood’s diary and the narration of Ellen Dean’s story leads to a deeper understanding of the intentions of the two narrators and the behaviour of the protagonists.

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‘T was on a summer’s day – the sixth of June: –

I like to be particular in dates,

Not only of the age, and year, but moon;

They are sort of post-house, where the Fates

Change horses, making history change its tune,

Then spur away o’er empires and o’er states,

Leaving at last not much besides chronology,

Excepting the post-obits of theology.

Lord Byron

Don Juan, Canto I, 103

Table of Contents

Preliminary Notes