Wuthering Heights: A Great Romantic Novel The Romantic period was a time of very imaginative and creative thinking. The literature produced during this period reflected this wild, free-spirited imagination. The works rejected Enlightenment thinkers in their claims of “Reason, Progress, and Universal Truths” (Damrosch, 1317). Instead, these writers explored superstitions and felt a renewed sense of passion for the wild, the unknown, the irregular, and the irrational (Damrosch, 1317). Other common elements of writing during this period were the return of interest in elements of Gothic romance, a fascination with exploring the inner world of the mind and the unconscious in its dark side, an interest in emotional adventures in exotic times and places, and remote, an interest in marginalized people in society (outlaws, rebels, nonconformists, exiles, etc.) and an interest in characters who engage in dangerous self-explorations that take them to hell, and not always back (Agatucci, 1 and 3 ).Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte, is an excellent example of a great romantic novel, particularly the type of romance known as Dark Romance. There are many different romantic elements present in this novel, making it a masterpiece of the period. These elements include the fact that it is certainly a strange, very original, emotionally charged, imaginative and innovative story (Agatucci, 4); his characters are very intense, passionate, reach emotional excesses and even become violent; and it is also about the element of the supernatural and the anti-rational (Agatucci, 4). Other romantic elements contained within its pages include the gothic setting that is sensual but remote, the dark Rome...... middle of paper ......d Heathcliff. So, as you can see, this is truly a powerful and emotionally charged story that delves into the darkness of the human unconscious, the supernatural forces that surround reality, and the romantic charges that initiate and cause all sorts of different human actions and thoughts . The story is very strange, but full of adventure, making for a very compelling read. This novel by Emily Bronte is definitely a piece of classic romantic literature and will continue to be read for years to come. Works Cited Agatucci, Cora. Lecture notes. Romanticism and realism. Historical-literary contexts for Wuthering Heights. 2001.Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1990. Damrosch, David . The Longman Anthology of British Literature. Volume B. Compact edition. New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 2000.