[PREVIEW] SPECIAL BONUS EPISODE: Wuthering Heights Teenage Feeling Edition

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Arts, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 23 February 2026

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Unstructured conversation! Teenage Feelings! Flesh walls! Abjection! Jacob Elordi's Jacob Elordi-ness! Arguments about the purpose of adaptation! THE GREAT AND VERY SMART MARGARET WILLISON! This bonus episode's got it all. So listen on as three English Majors with various levels of affection for the source text talk about horny aspic, the melodramatic imagination, Romeo + Juliet, pseudo race-blind casting, the 2005 Pride & Prejudice, and whether director Emerald Fennell is enough of a perv (no). Even if you haven't seen Wuthering Heights, this is a much larger conversation about adaptation, contemporary film, casting, the feelings we're looking for when we go to the movies, and much more. And if you have seen it, wow do we have more to talk about in the comments. So enjoy this bonus episode — and tell us what bonus episodes (with similar, loose-but-text-based-focus) you'd like to see in the future! (And if you'd like access to this paid podcast-subscriber-only episode, you can upgrade your Culture Study subscription SO EASILY here. If you have any issues, just email me at annehelenpetersen @ gmail) !

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone. This is a special bonus episode of the Culture Study podcast, and I'm Anne Helen Peterson.
0:06.4	And I'm Margaret H. Willison. And I'm Melody Rowell.
0:10.1	Margaret, can we just say first, like, my bona fides of, like, being part of this podcast is that
0:14.4	it's my podcast. I read Wethering Heights, read Wethering Heights when I was 20.
0:21.4	I have a master's in English, but never studied Wethering Heights in an academic class.
0:28.3	What about the rest of you?
0:30.0	I studied Wethering Heights in an academic class with a professor of Victorian literature who favored psychoanalytic readings.
0:39.1	Yeah.
0:39.9	But this was also 24 years ago.
0:42.3	I don't really remember anything about our time with Wuthering Heights, but I do remember
0:45.5	that the spontaneous combustion scene in Bleak House is apparently about Charles Dickens'
0:51.1	fear of vaginas.
0:53.0	And it does feel pertinent.
0:55.3	The psychosexual reading of this work is certainly present in the adaptation we've all
1:00.5	recently consumed.
1:02.0	I majored in English, and honestly, I would say that my best credential is that I did tell my
1:06.7	favorite 19th century literature professor, like we were chatting about it on Instagram and I told her my
1:11.8	take and she said that take is perfect. Oh. It's the best thing that's happened to me since I found
1:16.8	that we have the same pajamas.

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