Fragments of a blog
Fragments of a blog
Some Anglophone readers (and Russophone children) get understandably confused by Russian names in Crime and Punishment and War and Peace. Others are bewildered by the tightly circumscribed nameset of Wuthering Heights. Over to Kathryn Hughes, again: …the screechy melodrama about…
Kathryn Hughes’ Wuthering Heights article succeeded beyond expectations: surely the editors couldn’t have expected twenty-four pages of comments – a good deal of them sensible, some showing a keen understanding of the subject. It’s one of the rare cases for…
In her piece on The Wuthering Heights in The Guardian, Kathryn Hughes rehashes and twists facts and claims from the Brontë-related literature of the past thirty years to portray the author as a “ruthlessly self-defined artist” who was “self-interested, pragmatic…