... two decades, seen largely as a man's genre. Women writers were expected to write the kinds of novel which George Eliot was condemn in an essay as Silly Novels by Lady Novelists -the sub genres of romance, fantasy and sensation. But several of the major figures of the Victorian novel are ... vivid and fearful scenes banished sleep by night and disturbed peace by day'. The wickedness of Wuthering Heights appals people, because it is pure wickedness, free from any taint of flesh. And, today, novel counts in the Classics of English Literature, and every critic accepts Wuthering Heights as ...

• Word Count: 5526
• Approx Pages: 22
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School