Emily Bronte – “Wuthering Heights”

His aim he says, is to assess the novel as fiction and not as a personal document, fairy tale, myth, mystical poem, Yorkshire curio, or a study in the psychology of maladjustment. To this end he concentrates very closely on the development of events and characters chapter by chapter, rejecting any attempt to find in the work any consistent philosophy of life, and discovering instead a perfection of narrative form which serves to raise the experience portrayed to a level of university.’