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- Title
Heathcliff's Great Hunger: The Cannibal Other in Wuthering Heights.
- Authors
Beaumont, Matthew
- Abstract
The article appreciates the book "Wuthering Heights." "Wuthering Heights" unveils the profound hypocrisy and inherent barbarism of bourgeois civilization, but it quite deliberately turns to home in order to do so. Among other figurative resources, it uses images of cannibalism in order to strip this culture of its respectable clothing and expose it in its naked form. However, "Wuthering Heights" has so far been left out of critical studies of the role of cannibalism in literature.
- Subjects
LITERARY criticism; WUTHERING Heights (Book : Bronte); CANNIBALISM in literature; MANNERS &; customs; CANNIBALISM; HYPOCRISY in literature
- Publication
Journal of Victorian Culture, 2004, Vol 9, Issue 2, p137
- ISSN
1355-5502
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.3366/jvc.2004.9.2.137