Wuthering Heights Must Be Defended!: Heathcliff and Necropolitics in the Yorkshire Moors

This article draws on the "necropolitics" of Achille Mbembe to reconsider the figurec of Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights. It explores the resonances between Heathcliff's depiction in the novel and the broader 19th century vision of the colony and the colonized subject while arguing for a centering of the corporeal in the analysis of Brontë's prose. Utilizing the concepts of bare life and homo sacer developed by Giorgio Agamben, the piece argues that Heathcliff must be read as a somatic inscription of the biopolitical regimes of power of the British Empire.