A smaller cast

Dave Astor wonders in The Huffington Post, 'Are Novels Better With Large Casts or Small Casts?' and remarks on the fact that,

Other great novels -- such as Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre and Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence -- focus like a laser on a small number of principal characters. You might miss the sweep of a book that ambitiously features a cast of dozens, but it's easier to get emotionally invested in just one or two fictional people per novel. Plus, if the author is skillful enough, a small number of characters can still tell you plenty about love, hate, life, death, and all those other important things.

A PhillyBurbs blog begins with the following disclaimer:

When I was in college, I minored in English Literature, which meant I spent a lot of time reading books like Wuthering Heights, Middlemarch, Mrs. Dalloway, and Tess of the D’Urbervilles, poring over their pages and analyzing them in cohesive analytic essays. (Jillian Harding)

New York Irish Arts features the Alloy Theater Company's Brontë. Nellons Bokblogg posts about Classical Comics' Jane Eyre. The Crescendo of Creation discusses Mr Rochester. Maji Bookshelf reviews Eve Marie Mont's A Breath of Eyre. Betsy Reads Books has found echoes of Jane Eyre in the Nancy Drew mystery The Hidden Staircase. American Screenplay features an original trailer of David Wagner's script for Villette using images from F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu.