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This section contains papers about Bret Easton Ellis' Less than Zero (Leonard R.N. Ashley); Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (Lynn Hamilton); Anna Seghers' Revolt of the Fishers (Russell E. Brown), Molière's Le Malade imaginaire (Betty J. Davis), Baltasar Gracián's El Criticón (Catherine G. Rovira); Trollope's The Warden (Vivian Zinkin); and Names Prime Evil: Fictional Heroes of Horror and Fear in the work of Sir Walter Scott and Barbey d'Aurevilly (Maxine M. Bernard).
Sometimes she'll whip up a Brontë sister , which is an essentially somber dress with some feminine furbelow--a row of tiny covered buttons, perhaps--to hint that the wearer has hidden fires banked beneath her peplum.
[Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights]
Also in this group, I would say, are Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1846), not “Weathering,” “Withering,” or any similar fancy, and, admittedly more trickily, Aldous Huxley's Crome Yellow (1921), not `Chrome,” although of course the pun on this word is intentional.
Newsweek 's Jeff Giles calls it a "hokey tragic romance" and Entertainment Weekly 's Vanessa Friedman says it "reads like a high school essay--'write the story as if you were Charlotte Brontë.