‘Wuthering Heights’ Is Many Things, but It’s Not the Novel Emily Bronte Wrote

‘Wuthering Heights’ is many things, but it’s not the novel Emily Bronte wrote

If you want a flashy romance with all the stops out, go and see the film. But if you want a darker, more complex story that echoes down the generations, read the book.

Why Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights Is Nothing Like Emily Brontë’s Book

Two editors track the adaptation’s biggest changes from book to screen—and determine whether Fennell’s approach really worked.

Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights is controversial – but Emily Brontë’s classic novel has been shocking people for 178 years

Wuthering Heights is in cinemas now. Add it to your watchlistIf you've been anywhere on the internet in recent months, you'll notice that Wuthering Heights has caused its fair share of controversy. But it's worth noting that this is a story that has outraged and intrigued people ever since its initial publication in 1847.Speaking to RT, Juliet Barker, author of The Brontës, Lucasta Miller, author of The Brontë Myth, and Claire O’Callaghan, Edito…

An English Majors Take On “‘Wuthering Heights’”

I read Wuthering Heights for the first time as a senior in high school. Of course I had seen that iconic quote, “Whatever his soul is made of, his and mine are the same,” and I was so excited to read a gothic romance. That is not what I got, and I couldn’t be happier about it.  Despite what the tag line for Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of the film might suggest, Wuthering Heights is not the greatest love story of all time. Heathcliff and Catheri…

Why is Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights divisive?

A bold, polarizing reworking of a classic Emerald Fennell’s adaptation has split critics and audiences because it deliberately departs from Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel in tone, structure and some key plot beats. The film leans into eroticized, modernized storytelling and excises or alters elements…

Wuthering Heights and the Aesthetics of Surface

Did anyone expect Emerald Fennell’s much-hyped Brontë adaptation to be… boring? Before you see Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights remake, you hear it. Specifically, you hear grunting and what sounds like creaking bedsprings. This, it turns out, is a little trick played on the viewer. Because once the Warner Bros logo has come and gone, the film doesn’t open with Heathcliff and Cathy having sex, but on a scene of a public hanging. That creaking …