01-15-2009, 09:14 AM
Des Esseintes Wrote:That's not gothic. It's missing the big dark house with the single lit window in the background...
Wuthering Heights is usually marketed at the student buyer. Covers for books like Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre promote the books as classic literature rather than common garden variety gothic romance (no offense to such works, I love them just as much as the next guy, er, gal, er...)
Take a look through the internet at various editions of the book, rarely will you see a house (and rarely a figure at all) - most often the book covers depict a dreary image of the desolate, windswept moors, which this painting captures quite well, IMO.