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UNIT 48. ROMANTICISM IN GREAT BRITAIN
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UNIT 48. ROMANTICISM IN GREAT BRITAIN
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
- FROM 1789 LYRICAL BALLADS - 1830 QUEEN VICTORIA
- CONTEMPORARY FRENCH REVOLUTION
- INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: DESPAIR AND DISILLUSION
- RELIGION IS USELESS FOR AUTHORS
- MOVEMENT AGAINST RATIONALISM IN ARST AND LITERATURE
- SUPERIOR GOD, CREATOR
- PRECISION AND DECORUM
- SOCIETY EVIL FORCE THAT DETRIMENTS POOR
- REPRESSION
CHARACTERISTICS
LOVE FOR NATURE
- FIRST CONCERN
- RURAL EXODUS INDUS SOCIETY: NOSTALGIA FOR RURAL
- WORK OF ART BY IMAGINATION, MUSE, INSPIRER
- NOT A PHYSICAL SETTING: REFLECT MOOD
USE OF IMAGINATION
- AGAINST TATIONALISM
- ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES OF MIND
- FASCINATED BY ETERNAL FORCES
- DRUGS, DREAMS...
- SUPREME FACULTY OF MIND
THE SUPERNATURAL
- NO RATIONALISM + IMAGINATION: SUPERNATURAL
- CANNOT BE EXPLAINED
- BREAK FROM ALL TRADITION
- FANTASTIC CHARACTERS, SETTINGS: UNKNOWN WORLDS
IMPORTANCE OF THE SELF
- EMPHASIS AUTHOR'S FEELINGS
- 1ST PERSON
- ACCESS THEIR MIND AND THOUGHTS
PROSE
- LESS PROLIFIC THAN POETRY
GOTHIC NOVEL
CHARACTERISTICS
- SUPERNATURAL, HIGH PASSIONS, VIOLENCE
- NATURE WITH SCARY EFFECT: FORESTS, OBSCURE LANDSCAPES
- MEDIEVAL BUILDINGS
- FASCINATING CHARACTERS
- LADIES IN DISTRESS
ORIGINS
- HORACE WALPOLE: CASTLE OF OTRANTO :warning:
- HORROR TALE MIDDLE AGES
- PIECE OF NONSENSE FOUNDED NEW PROSE
- FATHER OF CURRENT HORROR GENRE
- ANNE RADCLIFFE BIGGEST PRACTITIONER
- CULT OF FEELINGS + GOTHIC SENSATIONALISM
- TALES OF TERROR AND THE MYSTERIES OF UDOLPHO :warning:
- PEAK: MATTHEW GREGORY LEWIS
- THE MONK: :warning: MORE ON HORROR THAN VIOLENCE OR ROMANCE
HISTORICAL NOVEL - WALTER SCOTT
- BIGGEST ROMANTIC
- MOST POPULAR WRITER IN UK AND THE CONTINENT
- EDIMBURGH: ROMANTIC PAR EXCELLENCE
- STARTED WITH POETRY
- FROM PURE ROMANTICISM TO HISTORICAL NOVEL
- EXTENSIVE KNOWLEDGE HISTORY OF SCOTLAND
- SOCIETY AND POLITICS
- FAME AND FORTUNE: WAVERLEY NOVELS :warning:
- EXTENEOUS SPEED: TALES OF MY LANDLORD
- IVANHOE, GUY MANNERING
IMPORTANCE
- ESTABLISHED CANON OF HISTORICAL
- FOLLOWED BY OTHERS: BRONTE, ELLIOT
- 20TH REDISCOVERED AND STUDIED
- DESCRIPTIVE, FLUENT AND DETAILED
- DEATH: END OF ROMANTICISM
MARY SHELLEY
- LONDON
- FATHER WILLIAM GODWIN
- AWAY FROM SENTIMENTALISM
- LOST PEOPLE THAT SHE LOVED
FRANKENSTEIN
- FOUNDER OF SCIENTIFIC GOTHIC
- ONLY 19
- HORROR STORY CONSEQUENCES IRRESPONSIBLE USES OF TECHNOLOGY
- INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
- MORAL TALE: GOING INTO THE UNKNOWN
- CINEMA
JANE AUSTEN
- NOVELS IN COMEDY OF MANNERS
- ADDS IRONY TO GIVE COMEDY
- ELEGANCE OF STYLE, INGENUITY, MORAL STATED REALISM
- HUMAN NATURE AND HEART
- DIED MIDDLE-AGED
- NOVELS PUBLISHED NOT IN ORDERED
- CRITICS: VERY CONSERVATIVE
- MORE MODERN: FEMINIST, WOMEN'S EDUCATION
ROMANTIC POETRY
- CANON ESTABLISHED BY GRAVEYARD SCHOOL OF POETRY
- DECAY OF LIFE, DEATH AND AFTERMATH
- ALL SCOTTISH
- PRECURSORS
OLDER GENERATION
WILLIAM BLAKE
- POET, PAINTER, ENGRAIVER, PUBLISHER
- NO BOUNDARIES CORPORAL SENSES-DREAMS AND VISIONS
- STARTED TRADITIONAL POET BUT BROKE --> OCCULTIST
CHRISTIANITY WAS HERETICAL
- CHRIST GOOD
- GOD EVIL AND TYRANT
3 IMAGES IN HIS WORK:
- HUMANITY DESTROYED
- INNOCENCE CHILDREN AND NATURE
- TYRANNY PRIESTS AND GOD
- SONG OF INNOCENCE :warning: (BELIEF) AND SONG OF EXPERIENCE :warning: (DOUBT)
- 1ST: EVOCATION LOST PARADISE
- 2ND: INTRODUCES DUALITY RELIGION
- TOGETHER 1 BOOK
- FIRST WORKS: CURRENT AFFAIRS
- INTERESTED IN POLITICS
- FRENCH REV AND AMER COLONIES
- LATER: LYRIC TO PROPHETIC
- MORE COMPLICATED POEMS
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
- POET LAUREATE, ADMIRER FRENCH REV
- LAKE DISTRICT: LOVE FOR NATURE (PANTHEIST AND NATURE'S CHILD): GUIDING PRINCIPLES FOR HUMANS
- SIMLPICITY AND RUSTIC LIFE
2 PRINCIPLES LANGUAGE:
- SELECTION: UNIVERSAL
- PLEASURE: REJECTS DISGUSTING
LYRICAL BALLADS
- STARTED ROMANTIC MOVEMENTS WITH COLERIDGE
- SHIFT IN THEMES: BIG HEROES/ GRANDILOQUENT STYLE
- WORDSWORTH SIMPLE LIFE / COLERIDGE THE SUPERNATURAL
- STARTS: RYME OF THE ANCIENT'S MARINER :warning:: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU FAIL TO SEE GOD
- FINISHES: TINTTERN ABBEY :warning:
- SECOND EDITION: PREFACE
- OPINION ON POETRY AND POET
- POET SPECIAL GIFT TO SEE THE WORLD THROUGH PERCEPTION: RENDER EMOTION THROUGH IMAGINATION
- DAILY LIFE, LIVING IN THE COUNTRY
- SIMPE LANGUAGE
- STYLESS STYLE: EVERYDAY LANGUAGE
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
- MORE COMPLICATED
- LESS PROLIFIC
- YOUNG WITH BOOKS
- WENT TO UNI, JOINED REFORMIST MOVEMENT
- NO DIPLOMA
- MET WORDSWORTH
- POET, PHILOSOPHER AND CRITIC
- STARTED ROMANTIC MOVEMENT
- REPRESENTATIVE OF MAGICAL SYMBOLIC POETRY
- PRODUCTION SMALL BUT METAPHYSICAL STUDY
- 3 MAJOR POEMS, 1 FINISHED
- LIFE A MESS: DESTROYED BY OPIUM
- BRILLIANT LECTURES :warning:
- INDEPENDENCE INSPIRED SHELLEY
- 4 POEMS IN LYRICAL BALLADS
- CHRISTABLE :warning: AND BUBLA KHAN :warning:
YOUNGER GENERATION
- HIGH PASSIONS
- TRAGICALLY SHORT LIVES
PERCY SHELLEY
- SUSSEX: ARISTOCRAT FAMILY
- OXFORD UNI: WAS EXPELLED
- NOMADIC LIFE
- EXPERIENCES: QUEEN MAB :warning:
- ALSO PROSE ATHEISM, VEGETERIANISM, RELIGION, FREE LOVE
- MARRIED TO MARY GODWIN
1818: MOVED TO ITALY
- PROMETEUS UNBOUND :warning:: GOOD OVERCOMES EVIL
- ALASTOR: OR THE SPIRIT OF SOLITUDE :warning:
- CRAFTSMAN OF POETRY
- PROPHECY NEW-BORN AGE
- POETRY: EXPRESSION OF IMAGINATION RENDER BEAUTY
- SIMPLE, FLEXIBLE STYLE
JOHN KEATS
- LONDON, MODERATE EDUCATION, AROUND BOOKS
- TRANSLATION AENEID
- TURNED TO POETRY SELF-DISCIPLINE
- GREEK, SPENCER, MIDDLE AGES
- NOT KNOW CLASSICS
BIGGEST ROMANTIC POET
NOT INTERESTED IN SOCIAL OR POLITICS
- MASTERING TECHNIQUE, PURSUIT OF BEAUTY
- AGE 21: FIRST POEMS NOT SUCCESS
- ENDYMION :warning:: SEARCH OF IDEAL LOVE AND BEAUTY
- TO A GRECIAN URN, TO A NIGHTINGALE, TO AUTUMN
- SAD BC PERSONAL
- DIED AGED 25
- CRITICS FROM LATE POETS
- INFLUENCED PRE-RAPHAELITES AND WILDE
LORD BYRON
- BEST-SELLER 2ND HALF CENTURY
- CHARACTER OUT OF HIMSELF
- GREW UP IN ABERDEEN
- BECAME AN ARISTOCRAT
- AGE 21: STARTS TRAVELLING
- EXPERIENCE: 2 FIRST CANTOS CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE :green_cross:
- INTRODUCES BYRONIC HERO: REJECTS SOCIAL NORMS OF BEHAVIOUR
- INTELLIGENT, RUTHLESS, ARROGANT, MANIPULATIVE, SEDUCTIVE, SEXUALLY APPEALING
- OTHER POETS RECOGNISED BYRON
- VERY SUCCESSFUL: OTHER TALES
- TRAVELLED TO GENEVA
- UNFINISHED DON JUAN
- NOT TYPICAL CHARACTERISTICS: FUN OF EVERYTHING, SATIRICAL
- INFLUENCED ITALIAN RENAISSANCE POETS: OTTAVA RIMA STANZA
- CONTEMPT COLERIDGE AND WORDSWORTH
- DID NOT LIKE KEATS (ROAST)
- INCLUDED A STANZA WHEN HE DIED