Romanticism

1. Romanticism By Kelsey Neipris Ryan LaFerrera Michelle McCausland Britney Meraz Skye Aparicio

2. What is Romanticism? - Literary movement during the 18th century, which gained strength in reaction to the Industrial Revolution. - Emphasized emotion, imagination, and nature as being above logic and reason. - Drew from Medieval elements of art and literature to escape the industrialism that was occurring at the time.

3. Liberty Leading the People

4. The Fighting Temeraire

5. Fashion - Fuller skirts - Smaller waistlines - Corsets, and layers Of petticoats

6. Ethics & Religion - Society becoming more secular • Rise of the “philosophes”, and the questioning of traditional thought • Beginning of the idea of “natural rights”

7. Political • Questioning of the tyranny of the monarchy and the “divine right of kings” • Beginning of democracy and the idea of “consent of the governed” • General reform of the government

8. Intellectual • The Enlightenment – scientific thought, reason, and logic • Economic and urban expansion • General public has more access to and interest in literary, artistic, philosophical, and scientific works

9. Key Elements • Glorification of nature • Religious mysticism • Praise of the medieval, or the time before the Industrial Age • Individualism

10. Authors and their Contributions • Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne  • Thomas and Joseph Warton • Thomas Chatterton • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  • Alexander Pushkin • Washington Irving • Edgar Allen • Henry David Thoreau  • Ralph Waldo Emerson 

11. Man vs Nature • Nature as the representation of god in the natural universe. • Man is one with nature and anything that happens with nature is beautiful. • Nature influenced man in romanticism because anything having to do with nature is positive even if the outcome was negative. • Romanticism is viewed as organic rather than scientific.

12. Stylistic Devices • Romantic writing is gruesome, over the top, unimaginable about what a person’s willpower creates out of it. They will act on anything they can do to survive be out there and live life to the fullest. A romantic writer isn’t afraid to put a character in the middle of a dessert with no food, and see what it can do, or be trapped in the middle of the ocean on an island. • Romanticism is a type of movement of concern, impression, emotion and hopefulness for the character. • It’s a kind of culture to mankind wanting to escape the safe background and be one with nature. The writer itself uses imagination and fantasy to escaping the divine devastation of the city life. Its setting is rural, dark and gothic. This kind of writing demonstrates the concern of young children, lovers and caring of animals.

13. Themes • The evocation of criticism of the past • The cult of sensibility with emphasis on women and children • The heroic isolation of the artist/narrator • Respect for a new, wilder untrammeled and “pure” nature

14. Characteristics • Rejects social norms and conventions • Has the self as the center of his/her own existence • Focused on his/her thoughts rather than actions • triumph of the individual over the “restraints of theological and social conventions” • regret for his actions • self-criticism • EXAMPLES: Mr. Darcy from Pride And Prejudice, Andrei Balonsky from War and Peace

15. Romanticism vs Modernism • Romanticism : • emphasizes nature, emotions, and individual, and the embrace of the traditional • embellishes and exaggerates the beauty of all things using long, drawn out, flowery sentences • Modernism : • rejects tradition not only in culture but literature as well • focuses on only the individual and his place in society • uses short, fragmentary sentences.