Time-Space Compression in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

This essay provides a reading of the geographical structure of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights. Using concepts borrowed from the theory of Mikhail Bakhtin and David Harvey, it shows that the geography of Wuthering Heights comprises a juxtaposition of two temporally and spatially contrasting environments. The interaction between these two geographies is interpreted as Emily Bronte's exploration of the conflict between capitalist and feudal socio-economic systems, and, more broadly, between social and cultural modernity and Britain's pre-modern past.