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English Romaticism (1798-1837), Romantic features, The English…
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Romantic features
the sublime as everything can create a sense of pain and danger into the reader. It was introduced by Edmund Burke as opposed to beauty and it finds its highest expression in the Gothic novel.
The Gothic novel is characterised by obscurity and terror and is set in ancient castles or abbeys .The characters are dominated by exaggerated reactions and there is always the presence of supernatural beings. The most famous Gothic novel in England was Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.
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A new sensibility and the presence of negative feelings: melancholy ,sadness, sense of solitude
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Romanticism in Europe
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In England the forerunner of Romanticism was William Blake (1757-1827), who rejected the neoclassical themes and style and introduced the new romantic themes.He believed that the artist was the guardian of the spirit and imagination.
The most famous English Romantic poets can be divided in two generations: the poets of the first generation, Wordsworth and Coleridge and the poets of the second generation, Byron, Shelley and Keats.
In Italy Romanticism arrived afterwards and walked parallel to the "Risorgimento", a cultural, political and social movement which wanted to unify the Italian peninsula.
The historical context
The French Revolution was leaded by the principles of equality and freedom , its development, however, was catastrophic and produced a sense of disillusionment.
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