Urgh, Twilight, get out of my field!

[lotesse]

So I'd heard about the egregiously Twilight-tastic new cover for Wuthering Heights, but apparently that's only the beginning of it.





Apart from the gag-inducing "favorite book!" faux-sticker, I can kind of at least see the point of this. As cross-promotion it is doomed to fail, because the last thing horny melodramatic teens want is puppykilling and incest strung out between long spans of Nelly Dean's nattering on, and with nothing so much as resembling a happy ending. But I can at least sort of see where they're coming from.

the same is true of this one:



because yeah, it's not like R&J hasn't been used as literature-bait for teens for just about ever. But the part of this gimmick that really puzzles me is the following -



what? I mean. Hunh? You really think Twihards are going to go for a totally desexed comedy of manners filled with veiled social satire? How does that logic train work?

I think they have a problem with their brains missing. And I want Twilight to plz to STOP INFECTING THE ENTIRE GENRE OF VICTORIAN WOMEN'S FICTION, KTHXBAI.

Comments

[slashfairy]

argh.

[lotesse]

I NO RITE?

[amelia-petkova.livejournal.com]

Can't. Stop. Giggling. The Bella/Edward sticker is the sparkly icing on the cake of angst. If I had to to classify their relationship in terms of Victorian women's lit, I'd go with "The Yellow Wallpaper." Over-controlling males and relaxation-induced dementia all the way!

I really do need to read Wuthering Heights. Have you read The Eyre Affair? The main character (her name is Thursday Next, hand to God) "mediates" events in literature (as well as chasing down bogus work of Shakespeare, etc.). At one point she goes into WH and it's hilarious because all the characters just won't stop arguing.

[lotesse]

confession - I didn't make it through The Eyre Affair. I just reread Jane Eyre instead! But yeah, WH is crazypants ish, in a totally awesome but yet demented kind of way. Which certainly doesn't mean you shouldn't read it! This is VicLit - crazy is good!

[msilverstar]

If we're VERY lucky, this will sneak some Shakespeare & Austen into some people's lives. Presents from clueless adults and so on.

[lotesse]

Maybe - but it could also backfire pretty badly! there's nothing worse than a disappointment, no matter how undeserved, to put you off of a book, more's the pity.

But, yeah, hope springs eternal!