The Byronic Hero and His Gothic Metamorphoses in Victorian Fiction

In a lot Victorian novels novelists confront issues such as the relationship between man/woman and society, manners, morals and money. Victorian novelists appear to have been preoccupied with social relation. In addition Victorian age preserves a lot of romantic elements. Some of these are to be found in the conflict between religious feeling and the scientific spirit, between mysticism and rationalism. This book focuses on the interplay of romantic and gothic elements in the two most famous novels of Charlotte and Emily Bront: Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. Special attention is paid to the metamorphoses of the Byronic hero in those novels as well as to the presence of supernatural and gothic elements in them.