You're listening to the London Review of Books podcast. I'm Thomas Jones. And this week, I'm

talking to David Trotter and Patricia

Lockwood about Emily Bronte's novel Wuthering Heights. It's a half-hour sample of the latest

episode from one of our new Close Reading series, novel approaches. Close readings is a multi-series

podcast subscription from the LRB exploring different periods of literature through a selection of key works,

and in novel approaches, new for 2025, Claire Bucknell and I, and a variety of special guests are discussing a selection of 19th century British novels.

Hello and welcome to episode three of novel approaches,

a close readings podcast series from the London Review of Books.

I'm Thomas Jones, a senior editor at the paper

and your host for this episode on Wuthering Heights.

And to talk about money and property,

as well as obsession, betrayal, revenge, cruelty, the uncanny,

unreliable narrators, weather, music, language, and of course, dogs in Emily Bronte's novel

of 1847. I am delighted to be joined by Patricia Lockwood and David Trotter.

Patricia Lockwood is a contributing editor at the LRB and the author of two collections of poetry,

a memoir, Priestaddy and a novel, author of two collections of poetry, a memoir,

pre-study and a novel, no one is talking about this. Her second novel, Will There Ever

Be Another You, will be published later this year? Hello, Patricia, and thank you so much

for being here. Oh, thank you for having me to talk about dogs. And David Trotter is an emeritus

professor of English literature at Cambridge, and his books include

the uses of phobia, essays on literature and film, and brute meaning essays in materialist

criticism from Dickens to Hitchcock, several of which were first published in the LRB.

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