“Open the Window Again Wide”: Inner and Outer Spaces in Wuthering Heights
“Open the Window Again Wide”: Inner and Outer Spaces in Wuthering Heights

Summary/Abstract: The novel Wuthering Heights, regarded as a masterpiece of English literature was published in 1847. The literary reviewers of the time had an ambivalent attitude toward this novel that departed from contemporary standards and baffled criticism through its enigmatic structure and its display of primal passion, violence, cruelty and unorthodox view on life. The same novel still continues to baffle even today attempts to decipher its true meaning, simply because it is an open, multi-faceted text, which cannot be placed in the straightjacket of a single valid interpretation. This article explores the inner and outer spaces in the novel Wuthering Heights, with a view to showing how they relate to different characters in the novel. The first sections will focus on the more or less enclosed spaced delimited by the neighbouring manors of Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange, as well as on the vastness of the moors, while the last part will deal with the elements that act as meeting points or interfaces between various inner and outer spaces.

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