Charlotte Brontë meets James Dean

Adrian Noble reveals in The Guardian that he was approached to direct Wuthering Heights 1992 (finally directed by Peter Kosminsky):

What have you sacrificed for your art?
I don't think I've sacrificed anything. I've made choices: on one curious day in December 1990, I was offered the chance to take over as artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company; then my agent rang and said I'd been asked to make a film of Wuthering Heights with Ralph Fiennes. I chose the RSC, of course, which meant I took a particular path. But I don't regret it. (Laura Barnett)

Entertainment Weekly defines with a Brontë metaphore the relationship (or former relationship, we don't really know the present status) between Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart:

What I do know is that their relationship has been disseminated through the media not merely to boost ratings or to sell magazines but as a way to burnish the Charlotte-Brontë-meets-James-Dean-meets-the-undead swoony mystique of the Twilight movies.  (Owen Gleiberman)

Oxford American contextualises the work of the writer Tania James:

All of her stories, she reasons, might be considered responses to the fish-out-of-water stories that inspired her: Jane Eyre, for instance; A House for Mr. Biswas; Emily Dickinson’s poems. (Marion Field)

Boston Review posts about the ethical power of poetry:

No matter how loyal and unswerving one’s personal and public commitments—to a love partner, a country, an idea—part of our interior remains capable of change. It is this part of our interior—this region of reversibility that is like a sheet of spun fabric one nanometer thick—that literature addresses. Far from being a threat to our commitments, this interior silk fabric that makes us labile and open enables us actively to re-consent each day to the people and places we are ever more deeply committed to. It also makes us open to new commitments. All genres of literature address this part of us: that is why anti-theatrical tracts are so frightened of the theatre; that is why it is impossible to predict which fictional person any one of us will identify with when reading Antony and Cleopatra or Wuthering Heights. (Elaine Scarry)

Vice describes the MTV reality TV series The Hills as

The Hills is Wuthering Heights for the Internet Age, and its characters speak in emoticons. It reminds us that people, even the beautiful ones, are damaged and weird, stuttering and mumbling and not making eye contact or knowing what to do with our hands. (John Saward)

Riiighht... is that what Wuthering Heights is supposed to be about?

Metro Times discusses what Goth music is:

Think "goth," and images of Anne Rice-era vampires (pre-Twilight) and black leather-clad bands such as Bauhaus, the Sisters of Mercy and Alien Sex Fiend will often come flooding forward. The word became a cliché in the music world long before it became unfashionable, with black mascara and black lace gloves the order of the day.
But to many, those overplayed images had little to do with the gothic art that is in turn romantic and devastatingly sad. Look at pre-Raphaelite art and, while the skin is pale, the eyes are not smudged with black and nobody looks like a Robert Smith-style death-mime.
The dark, poetic lyrics of Nick Cave and even Morrissey, certainly Kate Bush, capture that feeling beautifully — that Wuthering Heights (book and song) feeling of having love within your grasp and having it torn away before drowning in a sea of grief.  (Brett Callwood)

Slate talks about the CW remake of Beauty and the Beast:

Men may be violent and emotionally abusive because of damage they suffered. But that doesn't mean that their behavior is charming, or excusable, or that Heathcliff or the Beast should be anyone's dream boy. (Alyssa Rosenberg)

The Telegraph illustrates an article about the raising costs of restoring listed churches with a picture of

St Michael & all Angels church in Haworth, West Yorkshire, where the Brontës are buried, [and which] is undergoing renovation following lead thefts.

Linkiesta (Italy) has an ongoing discussion about the roles of women:

In Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë fa prevalere la protagonista (descritta come dai lineamenti pronunciati) alla bellissima Blanche Ingram sul cuore di Rochester, non per esaltare la moralità dell’eroina, ma per proporre un nuovo modello di donna in cui intelligenza voglia dire consapevolezza di avere il diritto di autodeterminarsi. (...)
Paradossalmente se Charlotte Brontë auspicava una donna in grado di decidere del proprio destino, in grado di comportarsi alla pari dell’altro sesso (cosa quasi blasfema per un mondo a misura d’UOMO) utilizzando l’espediente della sua non bellezza solo come dettaglio iniziale per catturare l’attenzione del lettore dell’epoca, abituato a sognare eroine belle e di alto lignaggio come sole elette ai migliori matrimoni nobili, per poi introdurlo verso l’idea che la donna possa pretendere di creare se stessa liberamente anche – e, forse, soprattutto – al matrimonio.
Le “donne di Vito Kahlun” potranno forse ispirarsi al modello “Eyre” da istitutrice super velata, ma il loro velarsi sarà esclusivamente finalizzato a entrare nella categoria brave ragazze da sposare..esattamente tutto l’opposto di quello che Charlotte Brontë voleva per le donne nel 1847! (Virginia Odoarde) (Translation)

L'Illustré (Switzerland) describes as follows the work of the comic artist Margaux Kindhauser:

Pour conjuguer ses envies de raconter elle-même ses histoires et de les mettre en images, Margaux Kindhauser choisit la BD sous le nom de Mara. Autodidacte, elle s’inspire de dessinateurs français (Loisel, Yslaire) et d’ambiances gothiques (Sherlock Holmes, les sœurs Brontë).  (Stéphanie Billeter) (Translation)

El Mundo (Spain) recommends summer reads:

 'El caso de Charles Dexter Ward', de H. P. Lovecraft. [Published by] Alianza. Desde 'Vathek' o 'Cumbres borrascosas' o 'Frankenstein', la Historia de la literatura gótica culmina aquí. (Álvaro Cortina) (Translation).

Bengal Reads interviews the author Chelsea M. Cameron:

Will you tell us about your-self and your books?
I'm a YA writer from Maine. Lover of things random and ridiculous, Jane Austen/Charlotte and Emily Brontë Fan girl, red velvet cake enthusiast, obsessive tea drinker, vegetarian, former cheerleader and world's worst video gamer

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