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Work #819 · Mid

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë
1846-47 (composed); 1847 (published under pseudonym Ellis Bell) · English
Romantic-gothic novel · Mid-Victorian English Romantic-gothic fiction

Emily Brontë's 1847 only novel — passion, revenge, and the Yorkshire moors

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Attribute Wuthering Heights (Mid)
Time · Extent Infinite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Deterministic
Time · Traversability Non-Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Bi-directional
Space · Extent Infinite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Infinite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Single
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Partial
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Both
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency Theistic
Observer · Moral Authority Experience
Observer · Theological Method —
Energy · Extent Infinite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Irreversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.

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Time

Wuthering Heights

The two-generational time of revenge.

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Space

Wuthering Heights

The Yorkshire moors and Wuthering Heights.

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Matter

Wuthering Heights

The embodied passionate self.

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Observer

Wuthering Heights

Lockwood and Nelly Dean as frame narrators.

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Energy

Wuthering Heights

Energies of love and revenge.

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Information

Wuthering Heights

The diary-fragments and oral narrations.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights: foundational for Romantic-gothic fiction; central reference for the long literary tradition of passionate intensity.