Self-righteous, judgemental, Sabbath-watching Joseph

The Guardian marks the quincentenary of the Protestant Reformation by listing 'the top 10 Protestants in fiction' and of course he had to be there:

7. Joseph in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847)
Though his heavy Yorkshire dialect can make the utterances of this long-standing servant at Wuthering Heights challenging to follow, his espousal of a rigid, unbending Protestantism is plain enough. Self-righteous, judgemental, Sabbath-watching and forever warning those around them that their immoral ways will lead them “straight to the devil”, Joseph is without a kind or Christian thought, or a redeeming feature, to such a degree that he can seem an absurd caricature. His hell-fire version of religion, though, offsets the appeal of a different sort of supernatural pull felt by Catherine and Heathcliff. (Peter Stanford)

According to The Times

evidence has emerged to suggest that old-fashioned novels are enjoying a revival among Scotland’s smartphone generation, in a development welcomed by literacy campaigners. (...)
Twentieth-century American fiction and 19th-century English novelists, such as Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters and Charles Dickens are also proving popular. (Daniel Sanderson)

Stern (Germany) reviews the film Lady Macbeth:

Oldroyd hat mit «Lady Macbeth» ein packendes Drama geschaffen, das tief in die Abgründe der menschlichen Seele blicken lässt, mit Anklängen an Emily Brontës Roman «Sturmhöhe». (Translation)