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Romanticism

Romanticism. an artistic, literary and intellectual movement that originated In Europe in the second half of the 18th century influenced by the ideals of the French revolution. It was a reaction against the Enlightenment

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Romanticism

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  1. Romanticism

  2. an artistic, literary and intellectual movement that originated In Europe in the second half of the 18th century influenced by the ideals of the French revolution. It was a reaction against the Enlightenment and the scientific rationalization of nature. It emphasised strong emotions and feelings such as love, the experience of beauty, horror, terror and awe.

  3. Characteristics • Evocation or criticism of the past. • Cult of sensibility. • Heroic isolation of the artist. • Respect for a new, wilder, untrammeled and "pure" nature. • Helped in the emergence of new ideas.

  4. Development • Roman Catholic countries Romanticism developed after the rise of Napoleon. • USA romantic Gothic literature made an early appearance. • British literature developed in a different form slightly later, mostly associated with the poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge • An early German influence came from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

  5. Authors • USA Edgar Allan Poe, Hermann Melville • Germany Goethe, Hoffman and Eichendorff. • French Authors Victor Hugo, Alexander Dumas • Spanish authors José de Espronceda (poet), G.A. Bécquer, M.J. de Larra and José Zorrilla. • British Romanticism William Blake (most extreme example of the Romantic sensibility in Britain),Jane Austin,Brontësisters,etc.

  6. DraculA

  7. DraculA • 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. • Story of Dracula's attempt to relocate from Transylvania to England • The battle between Dracula and a group led by Professor Abraham van Helsing. • It’s a Victorian novel.

  8. DraculA • Themes such as the role of women in Victorian culture, sexual conventions, immigration, colonialism, and post-colonialism. • It’s told as a series of letters. • Main writers  Main characters.

  9. DraculA • Itbegins with Jonathan Harker,an English solicitor. • Jonathan wentfrom England to Count Dracula’s castle. • He discovered that he had become a prisioner at Castle Dracula. • Dracula wanted to keep Jonathan Harker alive enough to obtain needed legal advice and teachings about England and London.

  10. DraculA • Finally, Harkers escaped from Castle Dracula. • A Russian ship was travellign with some boxes of earth from Transylvania. • Dracula was looking for Harker’s financée, Mina and herfriend, Lucy, that had acceptedArthur’smarriageproposal. • There’s a patient of Lucy’sfriend ,Renfield, that felt Dracula’s presence.

  11. DraculA • Dracula bites Lucy. • Seward, a Lucy’sfriend, calledProffesor Abraham Van helsing. • Some daysafter Lucy “died”, newspapersreportchildrenbeingstalked in thenightby a beautifull lady. • Van Helsing, Seward, Lord Godalming(Arthur Holmwood) and Morris killed Lucy vampireformstakingherheart, beheadingher and fillinghermouth with garlic.

  12. DraculA • Jonathan Harker and Mina arrived from Budapest, and joinedthecoalition, whoturnedtheirattentions to dealing with Dracula. • Dracula visited Mina and he created a spiritual bond to control her. • Then he returned to Transylvania.

  13. DraculA • Thegroupwent to Transylvania, dividingthem in threegroups. Van Helsingwent to Castle Dracula and killedhisthree brides. • Harker and Quincey, an American friend, went to Dracula´s box, and then, HarkerwhokilledDraculastabbing a knife in hisheart .

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