'Wuthering Heights': How a political novel was transformed into a lifeless romance
- Posted on March 14, 2026
- By Le Monde
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'Wuthering Heights': How a political novel was transformed into a lifeless romance

COLUMN. Cinematic adaptations have transformed Emily Brontë's 1847 novel from a political firebrand into an innocuous love story, thus stripping the novel of its original edge.