Joseph Auciello
BA – Boston University
MA – Boston College
Four Classes
10:30 – 12:00
Oct. 8, 15, 22, 29
Fierce love, unbending hatred, and primitive passion unto death across the Yorkshire moors: Here is the story of Catherine and Heathcliff, a Shakespearean pair of “star-crossed lovers.” Virginia Woolf observed that Emily Bronte possessed “the rarest of all powers” that enabled her to lift her characters “into the presence of greatness.” If ever a Greek tragedy could be written as an English novel, it would be Wuthering Heights.
We’ll use the Penguin Classics edition, edited by Pauline Nestor. ISBN 978-0-141-43955-6