Wuthering heights (1848)

The exposed moor and the very different households at Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange give attachment a physical geography. Brontë connects movement between those houses to class, possession and inherited grievance. Weather and distance matter, but so does who controls the property. The landscape's force should not turn the relationships into a romantic ideal: coercion, cruelty and domestic violence are embedded in the same place that inspires the longing.