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Table of Contents

Preliminary Notes

I. Questions and Contradictions

II. The Temporal Structure of the Novel

The Report and the Story – Formal and Functional Narrative Aspects

Dating Methodology

The Time Scheme of Mr. Lockwood’s Report

Mr. Lockwood the diarist

Mr. Lockwood the clairvoyant

Mr. Lockwood the patient

Mr. Lockwood the contemporary witness

Mr. Lockwood the tourist

The Time Scheme of Ellen Dean’s Story

Time references based on textual content (internal evidence)

Time references based on numerical data (external evidence)

Time references based on misleading ages

The misleading ages – background and consequences

The Time Scheme of Wuthering Heights

The Report and the Story – Temporal and Chronological Aspects

III. The Chronologies

The Definitive Chronology

The Traditional Chronologies

Sanger’s chronology (1926)

Clay’s commentary on the chronology (1952)

Goodridge’s time structure (1964)

Power’s commentary (1972)

Daley’s almanacs (1974)

Daley’s revision of Sanger’s chronology (1995 and 2003)

IV. A Practical Chronology

Mr. Earnshaw (c. 1712–1775)

Mrs. Earnshaw (?–1772)

Heathcliff Earnshaw (?)

Ellen (Nell, Nelly) Dean (1754–)

Hindley Earnshaw (1756–1783)

Frances Earnshaw (c. 1757–1778)

Edgar Linton (1761–1800)

Mr. Heathcliff (probably 1763–April 1801)

Isabella Linton (1764–July 1796)

Catherine (Cathy) Earnshaw (1765–20/3/1783)

Hareton Earnshaw (June 1778–)

Mr. Lockwood (probably 1778–)

Catherine (Cathy) Linton (20/3/1783–)

Linton Heathcliff (1783–1801)

V. The Ghost

VI. The Genealogies of the Earnshaw and Linton Families

The Critical Genealogy

The Alternative Genealogies

The Traditional Genealogies

VII. The Chronology as Practical Narratology

Playing with Two Eyewitnesses

Playing with the Temporal Structure

Playing with Time

VIII. Answers and Solutions

Bibliography