Abstract:In this article, I argue that, in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1847), the 'witch' motif is used to explore the novel's depiction of nineteenth-century anxieties surrounding threats to patriarchy and of expectations around women's domesticity and role in society. I show how Cathy Heathcliff (née Linton), who is called a 'witch' by various men in the novel, appropriates the role of witch, drawing on vestiges of medieval superstition to resist the patriarchal order, to gain authority, and to assert her posit… Show more
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