Since Victoria had only been on the throne for 10 years before Wuthering Heights was published, the reviewers of the day were hardly "Victorian" in their views. Hard-line "Victorian" views did not really come in until the second half of the 19th century. What I think you will have to do is do some research into the critical attitudes of the early 19th century.
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