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Romanticism: Mary Shelley and George G. Byron

Romanticism: Mary Shelley and George G. Byron. Luis Miguel Toquero Noemí V iñas Carla Erica San Miguel. Outline. Historical Approach Key Elements of Romanticism Romantic Characteristics in Literature Mary Shelley (1797-1851) Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus Frankenstein :Themes

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Romanticism: Mary Shelley and George G. Byron

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  1. Romanticism: Mary Shelley and George G. Byron Luis Miguel Toquero Noemí Viñas Carla Erica San Miguel

  2. Outline • Historical Approach • Key Elements of Romanticism • Romantic Characteristics in Literature • Mary Shelley (1797-1851) • Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus • Frankenstein:Themes • Frankenstein’s Legacy in Movies • George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) • Byron´s Poems • Conclusion • Bibliography • Slideshare

  3. I. Historical Approach • Cultural movement in art and literature in the 18th and 19th centuries • Rooted in German Sturm und Drag movement • Close relationships with French Revolution and its ideas. • Rejection of the previous Neoclassicism • Increase in reading public

  4. II. Key Elements of Romanticism • Imagination • Nature • Symbolism and Myth • Individualism: The Romantic Hero • The everyday and the exotic

  5. III. Romantic Characteristics in Literature • Symbolism and Myth • Nature is seen as beauty and truth. • Feelings and emotions take priority. • Sense of nostalgia from the past. • Characters are introduced as symbolic types.

  6. IV. Mary Shelley (1797-1851) • Mary Wollstonecraft + William Godwin • Relationship with Percy B. Shelley • Fled England • Moved to Switzerland (Byron’s villa) • Frankenstein 1818

  7. V. Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus • started in 1816 in Byron’s villa • contest: who could write the spookiest story? • Finished in 1818 • edited by Percy Shelley • Main representative of Gothic fiction

  8. VI. Frankenstein:Themes • Dangerous Knowledge: • go beyond human limits • The unnecessary woman • a new creature without a woman • Monstrosity • grotesque and unnatural • Terror • setting and monster

  9. VII. Frankenstein’s Legacy in Movies I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion.

  10. VIII. George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) • Sixth Baron Byron → Lord Byron • Travelled widely across Europe → Grand Tour • Castigated for his aristocratic excesses, huge debts, numerous love affairs • Befriending Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley • Died from a fever contracted while in Greece

  11. IX. Poems • Don Juan - “epic satire” - most famous Romantic hero - unfinished • Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage - long narrative poem - young man’s reflections on travel in foreign lands

  12. X. Conclusion • Influential cultural movement 18th and 19th centuries • A rejection of the precepts ideas and conceptions • Imagination, nature, individualism and symbolism • Mary Shelley and Gothic fiction • George Gordon Byron as a representative Romantic poet of the period • When you hear the term Romanticnowadays, what do you think? Is it closer to Byron? has it anything to do with Mary Shelley’s gothic?

  13. XI. Bibliography British Romanticism. (n.d.). Retrieved March 18, 2016, from https://faculty.unlv.edu/kirschen/handouts/british_romanticism.html Gregg Wright. (n.d.). Frankenstein - The Creation. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOcJwt8XB4M Lord Byron - Poet, Playwright. (n.d.). Retrieved March 18, 2016, from http://www.biography.com/people/lord-byron-21124525 Lord Byron (George Gordon) : The Poetry Foundation. (n.d.). Retrieved March 18, 2016, from http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/lord-byron SparkNotes Editors. (2007). SparkNote on Frankenstein. Retrieved March 18, 2016, from http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/frankenstein/ The Romantics. (n.d.). Retrieved March 18, 2016, from http://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/the-romantics Volume D: The Romantic Period | The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Ninth Edition: W. W. Norton StudySpace. (n.d.). Retrieved March 18, 2016, from http://wwnorton.com/college/english/nael9/section/volD/overview.aspx

  14. XII. Slideshare • http://es.slideshare.net/irujesusrn/lord-byron-iru-jess-rguez?qid=a56508ec-b60f-49fa-a93b-a4c44ba53d45&v=&b=&from_search=8 • http://es.slideshare.net/darkyla/american-romanticism-movement?qid=a2e3ce89-f310-4f5f-93cd-26c6c3f2d60c&v=&b=&from_search=1 • http://es.slideshare.net/danahuff/frankenstein-1232438?qid=3086b848-adce-47a3-8cdd-b61cdee9a35c&v=&b=&from_search=1

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