Heathcliff is not going to the Emmys

Let's start with unexpected news, it seems that the PBS has not submitted Wuthering Heights 2009 to the Emmy Awards. From The Envelope (Los Angeles Times):

Very odd: Several notable TV miniseries didn't bother to enter the Emmy derby: BBC America's "Burn Up" and PBS productions "Oliver Twist" and "Wuthering Heights. (Tom O'Neil)

Simon Schama selects Wide Sargasso Sea for the best summer readings in The Guardian:

Rhys's vivid re-imagining of the early life of the first Mrs Rochester in Jane Eyre follows the Creole heiress from her youth in lush but oppressive 1830s Jamaica through her transformation into English literature's most famous "madwoman in the attic".

The so-called greatest year of American film, 1939, is the subject of this article in The Cleveland Plain Dealer:

"Wuthering Heights." Oh the tortured agony of it all! The mother of all chick-flicks in the hands of William Wyler (from Emily Bronte's novel), with Laurence Olivier as Heathcliff and Merle Oberon as Cathy. (Clint O'Connor)

The Independent discusses the recent premiere of the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince film and compares it with the Twilight saga:

Yet teenage snogging is not at the heart of Harry Potter, as it is with Twilight. It is not a rom com, it is a narrative epic – all the greatest stories ever told wrapped into one. The Twilight books are said to nod to Pride and Prejudice, Romeo and Juliet and Wuthering Heights. Harry Potter has everything thrown in from Dante to Beowulf to Dickens. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince reminds me most of the Old Testament. Dumbledore as played by Michael Gambon is not the kindly old man we remember from Richard Harris's performance. He has turned into God. (Sarah Sands)

Michaela Zamloot compares John Irving's The Cider House Rules with Jane Eyre in the SF Young Adult Literature Examiner:

This classic from the “American Dickens” follows on the journey of a boy trying to find his place in the world, a coming-of-age novel travels from innocence to experience in a way that only the American dreamer can. Following in the footsteps of great British works such as Jane Eyre, Irving’s heart-wrenching story is a powerful portrait of life and love.

UTV News talks about Englishness:

Englishness, I concluded as I prepared to leave Bradford, is not really about a thing - the countryside, the city, the pub or the cricket ground - and it is not about Shakespeare or the Brontë sisters. Being English is about behaving and feeling and responding in ways that are quintessentially English.

Fish with Brontë names in the Chicago Pets Examiner, Wuthering Heights included in a summer reading list in The State (South Carolina), The Wire links again Wide Sargasso Sea with the finally stopped, unauthorized sequel of The Catcher in the Rye.

Exile on Ninth Street talks about Wide Sargasso Sea, Punctum has discovered some recent Brontë fiction (The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Brontë and The Taste of Sorrow) and not so recent (the infamous The Crimes of Charlotte Brontë) through this blog, Reviews (briefly) and Kay's Bookshelf (not so briefly and much more enthusiastic) post about Jane Eyre, Echostains Blog has read S.R. Whitehead's The Brontës' Haworth. Inspired Lunacy looks (with mixed feelings) at Wuthering Heights. Finally, the Brontë Sisters has devoted a post to the Pillar Portrait.

Categories: Books, Fiction, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, References, Wide Sargasso Sea, Wuthering Heights