Is Heathcliff a Murderer? Puzzles in nineteenth century fiction – John Sutherland

This is a blast. Sutherland picks away at the plot holes and hidden subtexts from a wide range of Victorian literature and comes to some fascinating and startling conclusions. The business about how Frankenstein animated his monster is eyebrow-raising to say the least.

It turns out that your average nineteenth century novel is somewhat racier than you may have thought at first glance.