Wuthering Heights is one of those rare books that appeals to a general audience as well as inspiring endless academic enquiry. Baffling & fascinating its first readers it has been read as a great love story a tragedy of hatred a promise of spiritual sublimity an intriguing textual puzzle an analogue of the class war a feminist protest a poem a drama a dialogue. It has inspired hundreds of interpretive versions in other media & the image of Catherine & Heathcliff on the hill-top (despite not appearing in the novel) has become a cultural icon. In this Readers' Guide Patsy Stoneman has devised a careful route through the bewildering profusion of critical writing on Wuthering Heights. After a chapter on 19th century responses the Guide links together a selection of extracts demonstrating the major critical developments of the 20th century from humanism through formalism to deconstruction. Subsequent chapters working within this general framework focus on psychoanalytic readings source studies readings using discourse theory work on dissemination & political readings including Marxism postcolonialism & feminism. By combining thoroughness & accessibility this Guide aims to be useful to both undergraduates & more advanced scholars.