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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.

Time

Wuthering Heights

The two-generational time of revenge.

Space

Wuthering Heights

The Yorkshire moors and Wuthering Heights.

Matter

Wuthering Heights

The embodied passionate self.

Observer

Wuthering Heights

Lockwood and Nelly Dean as frame narrators.

Energy

Wuthering Heights

Energies of love and revenge.

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.