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A 3 page paper which analyzes and discusses Nancy Armstrong’s essay Imperialist Nostalgia and Wuthering Heights. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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no real historical context or focus, despite its taking place in a particular time. It is a novel about relationships and people, not about historical conditions. In her essay Imperialist
Nostalgia and Wuthering Heights Nancy Armstrong examines cultural history, in a sense. The following paper analyzes and discusses her essay. Wuthering Heights In the beginning of her essay
Armstrong states, "scholars and critics...have assumed, Wuthering Heights comes to us as the product of a mind detached from history and uncontaminated by political concerns" which illustrates the essential foundation
of the novel from a historical perspective based on the fact that Bronte was a recluse, a virgin, and a woman who died young (Armstrong 429). In addition, if one
sees the novel from this perspective Armstrong indicates that many believe there is no way to really examine any historical significance, in relationship to culture or anything, in light of
its lack of focus on anything but perhaps the characters and emotions. It is at this point that Armstrong seems to be arguing that there is a very powerful historical
element in the story, a culturally historical element, as it involves the human psyche. Armstrong appears to be arguing that although many indicate that Brontes work is nothing more
than a reflection of "the neurosis of a female author who withdrew from adult sexuality into the sanctuary of her family, fantasy life, and, finally, death" it is also a
novel that speaks volumes about "cultural history" (430). In reading this statement of Armstrongs and assessing what she is saying, it seems that one must perhaps take her word for
the assumption that critics put Bronte into such a category, that she was an author who ran from her own sexuality. There may be far more to the life and
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