Editing Wuthering Heights (section)

== Works inspired by ''Wuthering Heights'' ==
{{Main|List of Wuthering Heights references}}

=== Literature ===
[[Minae Mizumura|Mizumura Minae]]'s ''[[A True Novel]]'' ({{transliteration|ja|Honkaku shosetsu}}) (2002) is inspired by ''Wuthering Heights'' and might be called an adaptation of the story in a post-World War II Japanese setting.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/15/books/review/a-true-novel-by-minae-mizumura.html?_r=0 |last=Chira |first=Susan |title=Strange Moors: 'A True Novel' by Minae Mizuma |newspaper=The New York Times |date=13 December 2013 |access-date=16 October 2016}}</ref>

In [[Jane Urquhart]]'s ''Changing Heaven'', the novel ''Wuthering Heights'', as well as the ghost of Emily Brontë, feature as prominent roles in the narrative.

In her 2019 novel, ''The West Indian'', Valerie Browne Lester imagines an origin story for Heathcliff in 1760s Jamaica.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=B-_zxgEACAAJ ''The West Indian''.]</ref>

[[K-Ming Chang]]'s 2021 chapbook ''Bone House'' was released by Bull City Press as part of their ''Inch'' series.<ref>{{cite web|title=Bone House|url=https://bullcitypress.com/product/bone-house-by-k-ming-chang-inch-47/|access-date=15 November 2021|website=Bull City Press|date=16 February 2021}}</ref> The collection functions as a queer Taiwanese-American retelling of ''Wuthering Heights'', in which an unnamed narrator moves into a butcher's mansion "with a life of its own."<ref>{{cite web|title=K-Ming Chang|url=https://www.kmingchang.com/bone-house|access-date=15 November 2021|website=K-Ming Chang}}</ref>

Canadian author [[Hilary Cunningham Scharper|Hilary Scharper]]'s ecogothic novel ''Perdita'' (2013) was deeply influenced by ''Wuthering Heights,'' namely in terms of the narrative role of powerful, cruel and desolate landscapes.<ref>{{cite web |first=Bob |last=Douglas |url=https://www.criticsatlarge.ca/2014/02/the-eco-gothic-hilary-scharpers-perdita.html |title=The Eco-Gothic: Hilary Scharper's Perdita |work=Critics at Large  |date=19 February 2014}}</ref>

The poem "Wuthering" (2017) by [[Tanya Grae]] uses ''Wuthering Heights'' as an allegory.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Grae |first1=Tanya |title=Wuthering |journal=Cordite Poetry Review |date=2017 |volume=57 |issue=Confession |url=https://cordite.org.au/poetry/confession/wuthering/ |issn=1328-2107}}</ref>

[[Maryse Condé]]'s ''[[Windward Heights]]'' ({{lang|fr|La migration des coeurs}}) (1995) is a reworking of ''Wuthering Heights'' set in [[Cuba]] and [[Guadeloupe]] at the turn of the 20th century,<ref>Gómez-Galisteo, M. Carmen. ''A Successful Novel Must Be in Want of a Sequel: Second Takes on Classics from The Scarlet Letter to Rebecca.'' Jefferson, NC and London:: McFarland, 2018. [https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/a-successful-novel-must-be-in-want-of-a-sequel/ 978-1476672823]</ref> which Condé stated she intended as an homage to Brontë.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://bombmagazine.org/article/2248/ |last=Wolff |first=Rebecca |title=Maryse Condé |publisher=BOMB Magazine |access-date=10 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161101132353/http://bombmagazine.org/article/2248 |archive-date=1 November 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 2011, a [[graphic novel]] version was published by Classical Comics.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.classicalcomics.com/ |title=Classical Comics |publisher=Classical Comics |access-date=5 December 2013}}</ref> It was adapted by Scottish writer [[Sean Michael Wilson]] and hand painted by comic book veteran artist [[John M. Burns]]. This version, which stays close to the original novel, was shortlisted for the Stan Lee Excelsior Awards.<ref>[http://www.excelsioraward.co.uk/shortlist2012.html Stan Lee Excelsior Awards: Sort List 2012.]</ref>

===Music===
[[Kate Bush]]'s 1978 song "[[Wuthering Heights (song)|Wuthering Heights]]" is most likely the best-known creative work inspired by Brontë's story that is not properly an "adaptation". Bush wrote the song when she was 18 and chose it as the lead single from her debut album. It was primarily inspired by her viewing of the 1967 BBC adaptation. The song is sung from Catherine's point of view as she pleads at Heathcliff's window to be admitted. It uses quotations from Catherine, both in the chorus ("Let me in! I'm so cold!") and the verses, with Catherine admitting she had "bad dreams in the night". Critic Sheila Whiteley wrote that the ethereal quality of the vocal resonates with Cathy's dementia, and that Bush's high register has both "childlike qualities in its purity of tone" and an "underlying eroticism in its sinuous erotic contours".<ref>{{cite book |title=Too much too young: popular music, age and gender |last=Whiteley |first=Sheila |year=2005 |publisher=Psychology Press |isbn=0-415-31029-6 |page=[https://archive.org/details/toomuchtooyoungp0000whit/page/9 9] |url=https://archive.org/details/toomuchtooyoungp0000whit/page/9 }}</ref> Singer [[Pat Benatar]] covered the song in 1980 on her [[Crimes of Passion (Pat Benatar album)|''Crimes of Passion'']] album. Brazilian heavy metal band [[Angra (band)|Angra]] released a version of Bush's song on its debut album ''[[Angels Cry (album)|Angels Cry]]'' in 1993.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://whiplash.net/materias/curiosidades/211170-angra.html|title=Wiplash|website=Whiplash|language=pt-BR|access-date=11 June 2020}}</ref> A 2018 cover of Bush's "Wuthering Heights" by [[Jimmy Urine]] adds electropunk elements.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jimmyurine.net/euringer|title=''EURINGER''|publisher=[[Jimmy Urine]]|access-date=14 February 2019}}</ref>

''[[Wind & Wuthering]]'' (1976) by English rock band [[Genesis (band)|Genesis]] alludes to the Brontë novel not only in the album's title but also in the titles of two of its tracks, "Unquiet Slumbers for the Sleepers..." and "...In That Quiet Earth". Both titles refer to the closing lines of the novel.

Songwriter [[Jim Steinman]] said that he wrote the 1989 song "[[It's All Coming Back to Me Now]]" "while under the influence of ''Wuthering Heights''". He said that the song was "about being enslaved and obsessed by love" and compared it to "Heathcliff digging up Cathy's corpse and dancing with it in the cold moonlight".<ref name="artist">{{cite web |first=Jim |last=Steinman |work=JimSteinman.com |title=Jim Steinman on "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" |url=http://www.jimsteinman.com/backtome.htm |access-date=13 August 2017}}</ref>

The 2008 song "[[Cath...]]" by [[indie rock]] band [[Death Cab for Cutie]] was inspired by ''Wuthering Heights''.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}

[[Wuthering Heights (band)|Wuthering Heights]] is also the name of a Danish-Swedish [[power metal]] band.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}

In 2024 an indie band "[[Mili (musical group)|Mili]]" released a single "Through Patches of Violet". The song features some themes that Wuthering Heights carries, mainly - poorly communicated love. Two voices, sung by [[Cassie "Momocashew" Wei|Cassie Wei]], are Heathcliff and Catherine. Originally made for a game "[[Limbus Company]]", which features Wuthering Heights's other characters and story elements.<ref>{{cite web |title=Through Patches of Violet, by Mili |url=https://project-mili.bandcamp.com/track/through-patches-of-violet |access-date=8 December 2024 |website=Mili }}</ref>