Is Heathcliff a Murderer?
Puzzles in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Published on 2. November 2017
208 pages
978-1-78578-300-5 (ISBN)
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'Enchanting...the most engagingly boffiny book imaginable.' Spectator
Does Becky kill Jos at the end of Vanity Fair? Why does no one notice that Hetty is pregnant in Adam Bede? How, exactly, does Victor Frankenstein make his monster? Readers of Victorian fiction often find themselves tripping up on seeming anomalies, enigmas and mysteries in their favourite novels.
In Is Heathcliff a Murderer? John Sutherland investigates 34 conundrums of nineteenth-century fiction, paying homage to the most rewarding of critical activities: close reading and the pleasures of good-natured pedantry
'Enchanting...the most engagingly boffiny book imaginable.' Spectator
Does Becky kill Jos at the end of Vanity Fair? Why does no one notice that Hetty is pregnant in Adam Bede? How, exactly, does Victor Frankenstein make his monster? Readers of Victorian fiction often find themselves tripping up on seeming anomalies, enigmas and mysteries in their favourite novels.
In Is Heathcliff a Murderer? John Sutherland investigates 34 conundrums of nineteenth-century fiction, paying homage to the most rewarding of critical activities: close reading and the pleasures of good-natured pedantry
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John Sutherland is Lord Northcliffe Professor Emeritus at University College London and an eminent scholar in the field of Victorian fiction, author of many works including The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction. He has also written the bestselling popular titles Is Heathcliff a Murderer? and Can Jane Eyre be Happy?, and such scholarly jeux d'esprit as Curiosities of Literature.
Content
- Intro
- Praise
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction and Acknowledgements
- Where does Sir Thomas's wealth come from?
- How much English blood (if any) does Waverley spill?
- Apple-blossom in June?
- Effie Deans's phantom pregnancy
- How does Victor make his monsters?
- Is Oliver dreaming?
- Mysteries of the Dickensian year
- Is Heathcliff a murderer?
- Rochester's celestial telegram
- Does Becky kill Jos?
- Who is Helen Graham?
- What kind of murderer is John Barton?
- On a gross anachronism
- What is Jo sweeping?
- Villette's double ending
- What is Hetty waiting for?
- The missing fortnight
- Two-timing novelists
- The phantom pregnancy of Mary Flood Jones
- Is Will Ladislaw legitimate?
- Is Melmotte Jewish?
- Where is Tenway Junction?
- Was he Popenjoy?
- R.H. Hutton's spoiling hand
- What does Edward Hyde look like?
- Who is Alexander's father?
- Why does this novel disturb us?
- Is Alec a rapist?
- Mysteries of the Speckled Band
- What does Arabella Donn throw?
- What is Duncan Jopp's crime?
- Why is Griffin cold?
- Why does the Count come to England?
- How old is Kim?
- About the Author
- Copyright
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