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Romanticism

Romanticism. Emotion and Experimentation…the Flowering of Romanticism 1798-1832. The Romantic Period. Images and Music of the Romantic Period: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zADECqE9BE Historical Perspective: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAw0M0x3lyA

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Romanticism

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  1. Romanticism Emotion and Experimentation…the Flowering of Romanticism 1798-1832

  2. The Romantic Period Images and Music of the Romantic Period: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zADECqE9BE Historical Perspective: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAw0M0x3lyA BBC Documentary – Romantic Period/Industialism and Literature to Return back to Nature http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfGugapN0hs

  3. Romantic Period in British Literature …a time of nature-inspired poetry, political questioning, and individualism.

  4. 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.

  5. Historic Connections German literary movement Sturm und Drangsuffering main character • martyr, a rebel, • an iconoclast going against society.

  6. ROMANTICS • question authority and values • question anything that infringes on personal liberty

  7. Byronic Hero • 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.”

  8. Byronic Hero Captain Jack Sparrow?

  9. ORDINARY = EXTRAORDINARY The ability to describe ordinary events as extraordinary is characteristic of Romantic literature.

  10. The Romantics… EMOTIONS RULE • 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.

  11. THE BIG 8 ROMANTICS • WILLIAM BLAKE • WILLIAM WORDSWORTH • SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE • JANE AUSTEN • LORD BYRON • PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY • JOHN KEATS • MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

  12. ROMANTIC NOVELS • Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein • George Eliot Silas Marner • Jane Austen Pride & Prejudice Sense & Sensibility • Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock • Jonathan Swift “A Modest Proposal”

  13. Romanticism: 12 Characteristics • Sensibility • Primitivism • Love of Nature • Sympathetic Interest in Past • Mysticism • Individualism • Idealization of Rural Life • Enthusiasm for Wild/Irregular/Grotesque • Unrestrained Imagination • Enthusiasm for “Uncivilized” or Natural • Human Rights • Emotional Psychology in Fiction

  14. Characteristic #1 Sensibility • Awareness • Consciousness raising

  15. Characteristic #2: Primitivism • The belief that man continues to corrupt nature of man • Primitive = sense of goodness, Purity, Connection to God

  16. Characteristic #3: Love of Nature • A preference for a world that is untamed, or unspoiled by man

  17. Characteristic #4: • Roots in the Medieval Period • Monarchy Rule • Religion Sympathetic Interest in the Past

  18. Characteristic #4 Cont. • Picturesque Details that are unnatural • “picture perfect” • Giving a sense that they could not exist in the real world.

  19. 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.

  20. Characteristic #5: Mysticism • Belief that there is common flow of spiritual matter shared by all • Once a person dies their spirit returns to common pool of life

  21. Characteristic #6: Individualism • Emphasis on the uniqueness of each individual

  22. Characteristic #7: • Love of the Country • Simplicity Idealization of Rural Life

  23. Characteristic # 8: • Wild and untamed • Unexplainable Enthusiasm for the wild, irregular, or grotesque in nature & art

  24. Characteristic # 9: Unrestrained imagination • No Limits to what you can do!

  25. Characteristic # 10: • Savage man • Indian stereotypes William Wordsworth Longfellow Image from “Song of Hiawatha” Enthusiasm for Uncivilized/Nature

  26. Characteristic #11: Sentimental Melancholy • Focus on death • “Graveyard School” • Gothic Characteristics

  27. Characteristic #12: • Frankenstein By Mary Shelley • Denied love • search for acceptance • rejection-which turns to hate Emotional Psychology in fiction

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