The Literary Icon of the Byronic Hero and Its Reincarnation in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights
The Literary Icon of the Byronic Hero and Its Reincarnation in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights

Summary/Abstract: The present study aims at investigating the Romantic literary embodiments of the archetype of the Byronic hero as depicted in three of Byron’s most representative poems, followed by an overall view of Emily Brontë’s (re)creation of Byron’s gothic hero in her famous novel, Wuthering Heights. In the first section of the study the emphasis is placed on the Byronic hero’s major traits presented in nuce in Childe Harold, Manfred and Cain. The second part of the article underlines Emily Brontë’s indebtedness to the literary icon of Byron’s hero and stresses the similarities between this iconic character of the Romantic age, and Heathcliff, a character of the Victorian novel.

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