Shawnee McDaniel's List: Wuthering Heights

Between them, the Brontës can be said to have invented a relatively new genre, a  kind of northern romance, deeply influenced both by Byron's poetry and by his  myth and personality, but going back also, more remotely yet as definitely, to  the Gothic novel and to the Elizabethan drama.

Byron's passive-aggressive sexuality--at once sadomasochistic, homoerotic,  incestuous, and ambivalently narcissistic--clearly sets the pattern for the  ambiguously erotic universes of Jane Eyre and Wuthering  Heights

Scholars have traced the literary history of the Byronic hero from John Milton, and many authors and artists of the Romantic movement show Byron's  influence during the 19th century and beyond, including Charlotte and Emily Brontë.^[16] The  Byronic hero presents an idealised, but flawed character whose attributes  include^{[citation needed]}: great  talent; great passion; a distaste for society and social institutions; a lack of  respect for rank and privilege (although they possess both); being thwarted in  love by social constraint or death; rebellion; exile; an unsavory secret past;  arrogance; overconfidence or lack of foresight; and, ultimately, a  self-destructive manner.