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RomanticismIt’s not all hugs & kisses!
Romantic Period in British Literature
a time of nature-inspired poetry,
political questioning, and individualism.
The Beginning
• William Wordsworth co- published a “new kind” of poetry with friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
• “Lyrical Ballads” (1798) - the beginning of the Romantic Period.
Historic Connections
German literary movement Sturm und
Drang suffering main
character
–martyr, a rebel,
–an iconoclast going against society.
ROMANTICS
• question authority and
values
• question anything that infringes on
personal liberty
•Movies popularize the ideal of an irresistible bad boy,
•This stereotype entered our culture in the Romantic poetry of Lord Byron.
•These ill-fated but beautifully emotional characters are called “Byronic Heroes.”
Captain Jack Sparrow?
The ability to describe ordinary events as extraordinary is characteristic of Romantic literature.
ORDINARY = EXTRAORDINARY
EMOTIONS
RULEThe Romantics…
valued individual experience,
trusted in emotions
rejected the social ‘us’ and embraces the ‘me’!
let Intuitions, feelings, and emotions rule.
believed man’s heart was a more valuable guide than his head.
THE BIG 8 ROMANTICS
WILLIAM BLAKE
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
JANE AUSTEN
LORD BYRON
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
JOHN KEATS
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY
ROMANTIC NOVELS
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein representative of the period.
Romanticism: 12 Characteristics
SensibilityPrimitivism
Love of NatureSympathetic Interest in Past
MysticismIndividualism
Idealization of Rural LifeEnthusiasm for Wild/Irregular/Grotestue
Unrestrained ImaginationEnthusiasm for “Uncivilized” or Natural
Human RightsEmotional Psychology in Fiction
Characteristic #1 Sensibility
AwarenessConsciousness raising
Characteristic #2: Primitivism
The belief that man continues to corrupt
nature of manPrimitive = sense of
goodness, Purity, Connection to God
Characteristic #3: Love of Nature
A preference for a world that is untamed, or unspoiled by man
Characteristic #4: Sympathetic Interest in
the Past
Medieval Period
Picturesque Details that are unnatural because they are so ‘picture perfect” that they could not exist in the real world.
Characteristic #4 Cont.
Nostalgia:Showing a preference for living in the past, rather than the present, because the past is considered to be better, simpler, or more exciting.
Characteristic #5: Mysticism
Belief that there is common flow of spiritual matter shared by allOnce a person dies their spirit returns to common pool of life
Characteristic #6: Individualism
Emphasis on the uniqueness of each individual
Characteristic #7: Idealization of Rural Life
Love of the Country
Simplicity
Characteristic # 8: Enthusiasm for the wild,
irregular, or grotesque in nature & art
Wild and untamed
Unexplainable
Characteristic # 9: Unrestrained imagination
No Limits to what you can do!
Characteristic # 10: Enthusiasm for Uncivilized
or natural
Savage man
Indian stereotypes
Characteristic #11: Sentimental Melancholy
Focus on death
“Graveyard School”
Characteristic #12: Emotional Psychology in
fiction
Frankenstein
Denied love, search for acceptance, rejected, turns to hate