“What Vain Weather-Cocks We Are!”: Emily Brontë’s Envisioning of Wilderness and Its Spectral Origins
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With a focus on the haunting landscape represented in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, this essay draws a reader’s attention to the physical—neither transcendental nor subliminal—aspects of wilderness. In the course of charting the elusive and seemingly unruly operation of nature, I shed a light on how humans are enmeshed in both earth and air. I contend that Catherine and Heathcliff can be taken as the embodiment of the hewn, illustrative of the kinship human can have with wilderness. In response to a call for leaning “towards nature as matter in its literal sense of physicality and materiality” in Brontë’s novel (Defant 38), I attempt for an elemental reimagining of nineteenth-century weather and environment. In doing so, this essay offers specificity to the allegedly vague, immaterial condition of Wuthering Heights. As such, the bogs, moorlands, and wind epitomize part of nineteenth-century British attempts to produce knowledge within the fields as varied as geography, meteorology, and geology. The “atmospheric tumult” manifested in the novel suggests that Brontë is conversant with the specific knowledge-making system of the period.
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With a focus on the haunting landscape represented in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, this essay draws a reader’s attention to the physical—neither transcendental nor subliminal—aspects of wilderness. In the course of charting the elusive and seemingly unruly operation of nature, I shed a light on how humans are enmeshed in both earth and air. I contend that Catherine and Heathcliff can be taken as the embodiment of the hewn, illustrative of the kinship human can have with wilderness. In response to a call for leaning “towards nature as matter in its literal sense of physicality and materiality” in Brontë’s novel (Defant 38), I attempt for an elemental reimagining of nineteenth-century weather and environment. In doing so, this essay offers specificity to the allegedly vague, immaterial condition of Wuthering Heights. As such, the bogs, moorlands, and wind epitomize part of nineteenth-century British attempts to produce knowledge within the fields as varied as geography, meteorology, and geology. The “atmospheric tumult” manifested in the novel suggests that Brontë is conversant with the specific knowledge-making system of the period.
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