Harsh Landscape and Punishing Climate

IndieWire lists the most overlook movies of the decade:

As Andrea Arnold’s name has gone around this summer (for reasons both good and ill), she’s often cited as the ferociously stylish auteur behind “Fish Tank” and “American Honey.” What’s typically left out of the conversation, however, is the film that fell between those two: Arnold’s 2011 adaptation of “Wuthering Heights,” a film as startling and thrilling as either of her higher-profile credits. Arnold takes the staid tradition of gothic costume drama and strips it down to the bones and raw nerves, telling Emily Brontë’s story with as little dialogue as possible, favoring primal body language and focusing as much on the harsh landscape and punishing climate as the tortured characters at their center. Presented (in Academy ratio, for the segment of film nerds who thrills to such technical details) free of music and virtually any other concession to conventional taste in prestige melodrama, Arnold’s masterpiece locates the myth underlying a familiar story, inviting the audience to reconsider their expectations not just for period drama, but for independent film as a whole. (David Ehrlich)

The Statehouse File praises William Shakespeare's First Folio:

Over the years, a cottage industry of supposed scholarship saying Shakespeare couldn’t possibly have written Shakespeare’s work has grown. The presumption is that no one without an elite education could have crafted pieces of such complexity and beauty.Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, and James Joyce – none of whom possessed a college degree – might beg to differ. (John Krull)

The New Republic reviews Three Women by Lisa Taddeo:

Maggie is obsessed with Twilight, spending nights fantasizing about an ageless vampire lover. Sloane loves Fifty Shades of Grey, its schmaltzy BDSM scenes inspiring her to act them out. But those novels are just intermediaries: Twilight contains many references to Emily Brontë’s tale of abusive love, Wuthering Heights, while Fifty Shades uses Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles as a motif. In Fifty Shades, the heroine Anastasia sees herself as Tess, the victim, while her dominant lover says that he wants to “debase [her] completely like Alec d’Urberville.” Sloane longs for the same kind of debasement, a submissive sexual identity that will make her as innocent as a young country girl (and conveniently satisfy her husband’s own desires). Maggie’s fantasies about vampires sucking her blood are as morbid as Brontë’s story of a dead girl named Cathy. (Josephine Livingstone)

Patheos mentions the Brontës in a published sermon:

My dad loves London. He was an English professor and specialized in British literature. Every other year during the month of January he took a class to London to read books by British authors like Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, and Shakespeare. (Adam Ericksen)

Crisis Magazine posts about how reading can 'save your soul':

Read of Jane Eyre to see that even in the midst of true love, even when it will ruin your life, you can make the right choice, endure misery, and then find happiness again. (Ashley G. Miller)

That's Mags recommends the upcoming Jane Eyre performances in Beijing:

 An adaptation of Charlotte Bronte’s classic 19th-century novel, Jane Eyre tells the story of a young and shy protagonist that works as a tutor for her eventual love interest Rochester. Set in the mysterious setting of an old Victorian manor, the classic love story shows Jane transform the gloomy and overtly serious Rochester into a love-struck gentleman. For fans of classic literature, live theatre and timeless love stories, this is not an event to be missed. 

Dagens Nyheter (Sweden) reviews Shirley:

”Shirley” är sorgsen komedi om strukturernas olidliga tyngd. Med subtil humor och stor poesi skildrar Charlotte Brontë en värld vars demoner är våra egna.
Bortglömda klassiker har en tendens att flyta upp till ytan i rätt ögonblick. Om inte vår samtid uppvisat en viss förtjusning i stöveltramp, en förkärlek för ledare som pekar med hela handen, en hänförelse för fackeltåg och bokbål, hade Stefan Zweigs ”Världen av igår” och Hans Falladas ”Ensam i Berlin” förmodligen för alltid blivit kvar i bibliotekens magasin eller bland de dammigaste luntorna i antikvariatens källare. Nu blev de i stället raffinerade backspeglar i vilka det förgångna som möjligen är framtiden kan beskådas. Aktualiteten går inte att betvivla. Kanske förhåller det sig likadant med Charlotte Brontës ”Shirley”. (Read more) (Jens Christian Brandt) (Translation)

Southern Living lists fall quotes including the Brontës. The Telegraph's Travel Solutions talks about 'Cruise the Heart of Europe - MS Emily Brontë'. James E Hartley thinks that Jane Eyre is an awful book.