Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights is an astounding novel with a circular narrative, characters who are doubled and named after each other, and a heroine who doesn’t make it to the end of the story. At the center is Heathcliff. Heathcliff rocks the patriarchy. He's evil. He's dirty. He's dead sexy. The novel is supposed to be mean and dirty and rough. None of the characters are likeable. That's part of what makes it so unique. It also takes all the ideas the Romantics were so fond of—isolation, r