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In their attempt to account for the strangeness of Wuthering Heights and to answer some of the difficult questions it poses?for instance, is Heathcliff hero or villain??critics have generally torn the novel from its Victorian surroundings and have indicated that one needs special set of criteria to evaluate it. Thus, in his brief note on the Brontes in The Great Tradition, F. R. Lea vis calls Wuthering Heights a kind of sport, outside the main stream of the novel's development and having only minor influence on works to follow.1 Lord David Cecil calls Emily Brontes outlook pre-moral: . . that conflict between right and wrong which is the distinguishing feature in the Victorian view of life does not come into her view. Human nature,
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In their attempt to account for the strangeness of Wuthering Heights and to answer some of the difficult questions it poses?for instance, is Heathcliff hero or villain??critics have generally torn the novel from its Victorian surroundings and have indicated that one needs special set of criteria to evaluate it. Thus, in his brief note on the Brontes in The Great Tradition, F. R. Lea vis calls Wuthering Heights a kind of sport, outside the main stream of the novel's development and having only minor influence on works to follow.1 Lord David Cecil calls Emily Brontes outlook pre-moral: . . that conflict between right and wrong which is the distinguishing feature in the Victorian view of life does not come into her view. Human nature,
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