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ROMANTIC LITERATURE - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Prevalence of poetry
        
        Emotional experience
        
        Individual feelings
    - - Re-create and modify
      - Poet = prophet or teacher
        
        Mediator man-nature
        
        Find evil in society
        
        Give voice to ideals
  - - - Temporary state
        
        Necessary for adulthood
      - Purer
        
        Closer to God
        
        Uncorrupted
    - - Child = future civilised adult
  - - - Social animal
    - - Individual qualities
        
        Atypical, rebel
    - - Civilisation = restrictions
        
        Generate corruption
      - Natural behaviour
        
        No governed by reason
        
        No customs of society
        
        "Noble Savage"
        
        Superior knowledge
  - - - Pictoresque
      - Unfamiliar
      - Remote
  - - - Inspiration
        
        Joy
        
        Moral truths
    - - Expression of God
  - - - Choice of language, subject
        
        Problem of poetic diction
        
        More familiar words
        
        Symbols of perceptions
  - - - W. Coleridge
      - W. Wordsworth
      - Theorise poetry
        
        Lyrical Ballads
    - - G. G. Byron
      - P. B. Shelley
      - J. Keats
      - Disillusionment
        
        Individualism, escapism
        
        Anti-conformism
        
        Rebellious
        
        Cynical
        
        Died very young
- - - - Idyllic pleasure
      - Rural life
      - Simplicity
      - Landscape details
      - The Task
  - - - Nature
        
        Physical details
        
        Reflections on man
        
        Primitive
        
        Civilised
  - - - Fragments of ancient poetry
        
        Primitive life
        
        Folk traditions
        
        Emotions
        
        Contrast: suffering/love
        
        Wild, grooming nature
  - - - Melancholy tone
        
        Settings
        
        Tomb = symbol
- - - - Contrast
        
        Personal desires
        
        Society
      - Psychological insight
      - Relations between social classes
      - Self-realisation
      - Dialogue
  - - - New position in society
      - Codes, conduction, behaviour
        
        J. Austen
        
        Manners, social behaviour, characters
        
        Upper/Middle class
        
        Contryside, sometimes town
        
        Relationship, class distinctions
        
        Influence of money and property
        
        Themes: marriage, love, friendship
        
        Third person narrator
        
        Importance of dialogue
        
        Passion and emotions: subtly
  - - - Napoleonic Wars
    - - Middle Age
    - - Waverley (1814)
      - Achievement
        
        Story is human decisions
        
        New concept
        
        Lifes of ordinary people
        
        Influenced A. Manzoni
        
        The Betrothed
        
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        Historical facts and fiction
        
        Political and cultural conflicts
        
        Different in language
        
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        Past of Scotland
        
        Imaginative adventures
        
        Interest in moments of crisis
        
        Language
        
        Highly figurative
        
        Dialect
        
        Portait characters
      - Ivanhoe (1819)
  - - - Culture and literature
        
        American Dictionary, 1828
        
        Prose
        
        Short stories
        
        Wide circulation
        
        Entertainment
        
        Fantastic stories
        
        Myth and legends
        
        E. A. Poe
        
        J. F. Cooper
- - - - Contrast: Augustan poetry
    - - New trends, no rules
    - - Authobiografical
      - Lyrical, personal
      - Intimately emotional
        
        Reflective
        
        Origins
        
        Noisy industrial city
        
        Contrast: serene countryside
        
        Interests
        
        Everyday life
        
        Melancholy
        
        Desolate, ancient locations
  - - - Individual consciouness
    - - Supremacy to the sublime
  - - - Terror and pain
        
        Strongest emotions
        
        Pleasure
- - - - Horace Walpole
        
        Strawberry Hill
        
        The castle of Otranto
  - - - Historical moment
        
        Disillusionment
        
        Enlightment
        
        Revolutions
    - - Sublime
        
        Ancient places
      - During the night
        
        World is hostile
    - - Isolated
        
        Wanderer
        
        Divine punishment
    - - Persecuted
    - - The Mysteries of Udolpho
        
        Ann Radcliffe
      - The Monk
        
        M. G. Lewis
      - Frankenstein
        
        Mary Shelley