La educación y el progreso social en la literatura victorianaEl caso de Emily Brontë y Wuthering Heigts

  1. Ana Pérez Porras 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Jaén
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    Universidad de Jaén

    Jaén, España

    ROR https://ror.org/0122p5f64

Book:
La Universidad con perspectiva de género
  1. Diego Sánchez, Jorge (coord.)
  2. Jaime de Pablos, María Elena (coord.)
  3. Borham Puyal, Miriam (coord.)

Publisher: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca ; Universidad de Salamanca

ISBN: 978-84-9012-969-2

Year of publication: 2018

Pages: 253-265

Type: Book chapter

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Abstract

This paper discusses the role played by education as an instrument of personal formation and as an agent of social progress in Wuthering Heights (1847). The seemingly vulgar and unscrupulous nature of the last Earnshaw descendant is characterized by the lack of a basic education, a privilege that Heathcliff has voluntarily denied him. Having recovered his minimal education provided by Cathy through the books with which he teaches him to read and write, Hareton ascends the social scale. Thus, once the social order has been established, a new situation is created in which the close relationship existing between the hierarchized rural society, the indisputable power of property and the importance of education is exposed

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