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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
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Hadleigh Castle
(1829) John Constable
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The Bard
John Martin
1789-1854
Romantic painters sought out the spectacular aspects of nature.
The bard stood for vision and imagination.
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AlexandrDumasGeorge Sand
French Novelists
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Victor Hugo
French Novelists
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German Writers
Goethe Heinrich Heine
Grimm’s Fairy Tales
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American Romantic Fervor
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Coleridge
Wordsworth
Lyrical Ballads
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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”
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British Romantic Poetry
Shelley Keats
Byron
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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
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
Most of what passes for progress is
really corruption
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Rousseau (1712-1778)
Forerunner of the
Romantic period
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Literary Forms in Upheaval
No important playsnew genre “verse
dramas”meant to be read, not
acted out
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Gothic Novels
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Travel Became Commonplace
Steamboat & steam locomotive
travel-writing essays, poems, &
prose narratives
Karl Baedeker’s travel guides
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Romanticism
Art, music, & literature reflected the spirit of revolution sweeping France & America
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Romanticism
Characteristics interest in nature, exaltation of
imagination protest against
“correctness” increased faith in the
worth of the individual
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Historical Background
Revolution
and Reaction
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The Industrial Revolution
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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.”
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The end!
Thank you for your attention.
Mrs. Lewis