6. Conclusion to Part 1

About this Lecture

Lecture

In this module, we wrap up our discussion of Heathcliff and Romanticism by once again considering the ‘doubleness’ of Heathcliff – someone that the other characters in the novel variously desire and/or fear – before looking once against at how Freud dealt with ‘doubleness’ through his concept of the Uncanny.

Course

In this course we look at several aspects of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights. In the first six sections, we focus on Romanticism and what it means to call Heathcliff a Romantic hero. In second six sections, we focus on individual themes in the novel, including the concepts of alienation, madness and hysteria, town and country, nostalgia, and the Gothic.

Lecturer

Alfie Bown is Lecturer in Digital Media Culture and Technology at Royal Holloway, University of London. His principle research interests are in psychoanalysis, digital media, critical theory and videogames, though he has also published in nineteenth-century studies, film studies and medieval studies. He is author of The Playstation Dreamworld (2017) and In the Event of Laughter (2018) among other things. His most recent book is an edited collection of essays entitled Post-Memes: Seizing the Memes of Production (2019).