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The Romantic Age 1798-1832
“The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the
effect was already in the cause.”
Henri Bergson
Hadleigh Castle
(1829) John Constable
The Bard
John Martin
1789-1854
Romantic painters sought out the spectacular aspects of nature.
The bard stood for vision and imagination.
AlexandrDumasGeorge Sand
French Novelists
Victor Hugo
French Novelists
German Writers
Goethe Heinrich Heine
Grimm’s Fairy Tales
American Romantic Fervor
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Coleridge
Wordsworth
Lyrical Ballads
Wordsworth & Coleridge
leave specialized, formal language of 18th century “poetic diction”
replace with experimental attempts to fit “metrical arrangement a selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation”
“the real language of men”
British Romantic Poetry
Shelley Keats
Byron
Writers Lived in Age of Change
1807 gas street lights, London
20 years later, Age of Electricity
1798-1832, railroads sprang up
photography invented typewriter patented
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Most of what passes for progress is
really corruption
Rousseau (1712-1778)
Forerunner of the
Romantic period
Literary Forms in Upheaval
No important playsnew genre “verse
dramas”meant to be read, not
acted out
Gothic Novels
Travel Became Commonplace
Steamboat & steam locomotive
travel-writing essays, poems, &
prose narratives
Karl Baedeker’s travel guides
Romanticism
Art, music, & literature reflected the spirit of revolution sweeping France & America
Romanticism
Characteristics interest in nature, exaltation of
imagination protest against
“correctness” increased faith in the
worth of the individual
Historical Background
Revolution
and Reaction
The Industrial Revolution
Romanticism” as a Period and a Concept
Began 1798 Lyrical Ballads
Ends 1832 Sir Walter Scott’s death
Scott wrote in a mode he himself called “romance,” “the interest of which turns upon marvelous and uncommon incidents.”
The end!
Thank you for your attention.
Mrs. Lewis