A new Brontë-related paper:
Ahmad Rizal Abdullah, Universitas Negeri Makassar DEIKTIS: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa Dan Sastra, 5(4), 5390-5400.
This study examines the representation of social class in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights through the lens of Marxist literary criticism. While previous research has discussed themes such as class hierarchy, symbolic power, and economic determinism, limited attention has been given to how these dynamics are directly embedded in the novel’s dialogue and narrative interactions. To address this gap, this research analyzes twenty selected textual excerpts using key Marxist concepts, including class struggle, ideology, and material conditions. The study employs a qualitative descriptive approach, drawing on the works of Marx and Engels, Eagleton, and other theorists to interpret how language and character behavior reflect social positioning. The findings show that Wuthering Heights portrays a deeply stratified social environment in which identities, decisions, and conflicts are shaped by class-based power relations. Heathcliff’s marginalization, Catherine’s status-driven choices, and Hindley’s abusive dominance embody recurring patterns of oppression and resistance consistent with Marxist theory. The study concludes that Brontë’s novel not only dramatizes interpersonal tensions but also exposes the structural inequalities that govern them, offering a more nuanced understanding of how Victorian literature reflects and critiques social class. This research contributes to existing scholarship by providing a dialogue-centered, textually grounded analysis that clarifies the mechanisms of class representation more precisely than broader thematic studies.
People lists the books its staff is gifting this holiday season including A special edition of an old favorite Special editions of literary favorites are something of a trend these days: Sprayed edges, designed endpapers and cases adorned with glitter and metallic accents are all some of the beautiful details that highlight the stories within. A collectible edition of your recipient's favorite — perhaps this gorgeous Jane Eyre painted package — will dress up their bookshelf beautifully. (Lizz Schumer)
Book Club has AI-generated content on the '7 Drama Books You Must Read In 2025' (sic) including Jane Eyre. Jane Eyre is also one of several classics chosen by Leadership to 'Enkindle The Familial Bonding of Christmas'. The seventh day of AnneBrontë.org's Twelve Days of Brontë Christmas is all about the Brontë novels. A new book with Brontë-related content:
Edited By Lin Young, Brooke Cameron Routledge ISBN: 9781003498995 October 2025
Victorians and Videogames will examine how games interact with nineteenth-century genres, aesthetics, and literary themes as a means of engaging, critiquing, or challenging their original contexts. In essence, this collection will consider the ways in which embodied, user-driven storytelling can impact new and challenging engagements with the nineteenth century in the contemporary world. This book contains four categories that summarize major trends in nineteenth-century-oriented games. The first section, “Ludic and Narrative Intertextuality,” examines games that directly adapt nineteenth-century texts, considering how ludic and literary elements work together to produce new commentary on the original texts. Second, “Genre and Character (re)Creation,” will examine games that are more thematically engaged with the nineteenth century. Third, “Navigation, Colonization, and Exploration” examines the ways in which players move and interact with game environments, and how game design itself can often evoke social systems, or the politics of imperialist conquest. Finally, “Science, Systems, and Technologies” will examine how contemporary games engage with nineteenth-century innovations (both good and bad) in science and technology. In this way, the sections begin with more explicit nineteenth-century engagements and build to more theoretical and subtextual ones.
The book contains the chapter:
By Brooke Cameron
This chapter uses disability theory to talk about autism in the Victorian videogame. This chapter takes as its primary texts Emily Brontë’s 1848 Gothic masterpiece, Wuthering Heights, as well as Tarsier Studio’s puzzle-platform horror adventure game, Little Nightmares II (2021); we read both novel and game as privileging the neurodivergent child’s point of view, and more specifically, we read both as focused upon the autistic child’s use of the partnership (or Gothic double) as a form of “masking”—and therein navigating—structures of early socialization and education. And we see in both texts the latter’s (education’s) very Victorian legacy of “mainstreaming” the disabled child and of the psychological horrors that ensue—from Catherine’s mental breakdown and premature death (and permanent separation from Heathcliff) to Six’s shocking betrayal of Mono and the cyclical trauma which then consumes the pair.
The Bookseller looks into next year's book-to-film adaptations that Booktokers are most looking forward to. Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic Wuthering Heights, starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi in the lead roles of Cathy and Heathcliff, was also selected by Megan, but the film has been “subject to huge controversy”, said Evie. Charlotte explained: “Like every other BookTokker, I am very curious about the Wuthering Heights adaptation. I’ve been enjoying all the commentary online following the trailer and although I usually prefer an adaptation that is more true to the book… I will probably deeply enjoy it regardless. It’s camp!” (Katie Fraser) Mint lists the '7 big Hollywood movies set for release this winter', including Wuthering Heights. Huffpost claims that 'Holidays Are Set To Be More Whimsical In 2026': In their travel prediction, Pinterest said: “Fairytale meets fever dream in 2026’s biggest travel trend. “Millennials and Boomers will seek out whimsical and mystical destinations: distant ruins swallowed by mist, naturally-occurring spirals and moody, enchanting forests. You may find you come back with more questions than answers.” Are we maybe all feeling a little too excited for the upcoming Wuthering Heights film? (Sarah-Louise Kelly)
Lifestyle Asia lists the 'Best gothic romance movies to add to your watchlist': 4 /11 Wuthering Heights (1939) Directed by: William Wyler Cast: Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon, David Niven, Flora Robson IMDb rating: 7.5 Synopsis: Heathcliff (Olivier) and Catherine Earnshaw (Oberon) fall madly in love, but fate drives them apart. As Heathcliff’s passion curdles into vengeance, it sets them both on a path towards inevitable doom. About the movie: A striking adaptation of Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel, the movie brings only 16 of the 34 chapters from Brontë’s book to the big screen. Award won: Academy Award for Best Cinematography (Black & White). 5 /11 Jane Eyre (1943) Directed by: Robert Stevenson Cast: Joan Fontaine, Orson Welles, Margaret O’Brien, Agnes Moorehead IMDb rating: 7.4 Synopsis: Orphaned Jane Eyre (Fontaine) becomes the governess at Thornfield Hall and soon begins a romance with her employer, Edward Rochester (Welles). But when a dark secret hidden in the attic comes to light, it threatens the lovers’ fate. About the movie: The movie is adapted from Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 masterpiece of the same name. (Sushmita Mahanta)
And more about films as The Washington Post wonders whether The Housemaid is 'a schlocky thriller or a secret feminist masterpiece'. Ever since Jean Rhys published “Wide Sargasso Sea” in 1966, literary women have been intrigued by the idea that the madwoman in the attic might have a perfectly good explanation for all of this. That novel was a retelling of “Jane Eyre,” Charlotte Brontë’s classic 1847 work about a governess whose romance with her brooding employer is stalled by the existence of his batty current wife, until — ah bless, a happy ending — Mrs. Rochester burns down the mansion and jumps to her death. But in “Sargasso,” Rhys imagines a backstory for this crazy lady. What if she had been forced into marriage, a Creole heiress dragged from Jamaica to live in sopping England with a man who wanted her only for her money? What if he had responded to her grief and culture shock by stashing her upstairs while he ogled the nanny? What if he took away her lovely given name and told everyone to call her Bertha? With this bookish history in mind, I’ll remind you that an absolutely preposterous and eminently marketable thriller starring Amanda Seyfried and Sydney Sweeney opens nationwide Friday. [...] If you have been in a bookstore, a library or an airport anytime in the past three years, you’re already aware of the best-selling franchise, a trilogy by the pseudonymous Freida McFadden. While steering clear of specific spoilers, I can say that “The Housemaid” — the first of the series — is “Jane Eyre” and “Wide Sargasso Sea” fused into one clunky but fizzy narrative. Millie, a cleaner with a secret dark past, accepts a live-in position in the home of Nina, who quickly reveals herself to be a nightmare boss. She accuses Millie of throwing away documents Millie has never touched; she demands expensive purchases and then insists the money come out of Millie’s salary. (Monica Hesse)
Iconic homes throughout literature played into Jones and Mitchell’s interpretation of the Winchester home, including Manderley in Rebecca, Thornfield Hall in Jane Eyre, and even the room in the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper.” In a departure from the novel, the production team decided to style Millie’s room in all white as a subtle nod to her mental state throughout the film. (Alyssa Longobucco) Book Club has AI-generated content on the '7 Classic Books To Read Once In Your Lifetime' including both Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. AnneBrontë.org's sixth day of The Twelve Days of Brontë Christmas was all about Emily Brontë's death anniversary. The Brontë Sisters UK posta a video with her very personal Brontë Wishes for Christmas. The Behind the Glass podcast has a special Christmas episode.
This is a selection of some Jane Eyre derivatives that have appeared recently, probably AI-produced
by Bill Tarino ASIN : B0FTQVG41K October 2025
A ravaged manor. A voice across the moor. A love that refuses to be buried. Thornfield Reborn is a luminous, modern-read retelling of Charlotte Brontë’s classic. It keeps the heart of the story you love while reshaping the journey with clean, contemporary prose and purposeful pacing. After a life of hard lessons, Jane accepts a post at Thornfield and finds more than work. She finds respect, belonging, and a man who meets her as an equal. But secrets surface, the wedding halts, and a midnight blaze erases the future she almost held. Alone on the moor, Jane builds new purpose in a hard, honest village where work matters and kindness counts. Then a voice carries her name across miles of heather, drawing her to a secluded lodge deep in the ferns. There, a humbler house and a
wounded man offer the chance to choose love with clear eyes.
by Nora R. Wild ASIN : B0FTXL3KR4October 2025
A timeless story, reimagined for today. Love. Freedom. Pain. And the courage to live on your own terms. Jane Eyre is not your average young woman. She wasn’t in the 19th century—and she certainly isn’t in 2025. Orphaned, defiant, and quietly burning with the need to belong, Jane survives a childhood of neglect in the suburban shadows of Atlanta. Raised in a house where she’s barely tolerated, she clings to her wit and stubborn will like armor. But fate is not finished testing her. Sent to a strict religious boarding school for disadvantaged girls, Jane must navigate a world of cold rules and harsh punishments. And yet, even here, she finds light: in Helen, a friend who teaches her gentleness without weakness, and in Miss Temple, a mentor who shows her how to resist without losing herself. Years later, Jane becomes a governess at the mysterious Thornfield Hall, deep in the forests of North Carolina. There she meets Adèle, a curious French girl... and Edward Rochester—her brooding, brilliant, and broken employer.
by Prince Penman ASIN: B0FXV3291N October 2025
In a world where every click curates a persona, Jane Penman dares to log off. A digital strategist ensnared by the glittering, treacherous web of social media, Jane’s rebellion begins with a viral blog exposing her influencer family’s hypocrisy, landing her in the stark Lowood academy. There, she hones her coding skills, only to be drawn into the orbit of Edward Rochester, a brooding tech mogul whose smart-home empire, Thornfield Labs, hides a secret: his first wife, Bertha, a brilliant but unstable digital artist locked in an encrypted server. As Jane and Rochester’s unfiltered connection deepens through late-night encrypted chats, a catastrophic livestream unmasks his past, shattering her curated future. Fleeing to the analog moors, Jane deletes her digital identity, embracing poverty and solitude until the Rivers siblings offer her purpose—a chance to code for global good. Yet, a ghostly pull leads her back to a humbled Rochester, living unplugged in a cottage reclaimed by nature. Jane Eyre: A Modern Retelling reimagines Brontë’s classic as a gothic romance and tech-noir odyssey, blending speculative fiction, feminist dystopia, and literary science fiction. For readers seeking Jane Eyre retellings, digital identity tales, or modern love stories, this haunting narrative of independence and authenticity resonates like a heartbeat in the noise of the digital age.
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