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literature
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early romantic poetry
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William Blake --> the for runner of romantic poetry, because his use of symbols and his interest in social problems
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the gothic novel
themes are fear, disillusionment with enlightenment, the sublime
the settings are: ancient, gloomy, misterious. the plot is very complicated
Horace Walpole linked the gothtic architecture with literature ("castle of Otranto - a gothic story")
characheters are: isolated, exiled, persecuted by ghosts, monterns, evil...
it features taste for mystery, death, evil, ghosts and strange
a new sensibility
the themes of literature were: desolation, melancholy about death, ruin, graveyard.
nature is seen as a real living being, not an abstract concept. a new aesthetic theory about the sublime was spread: as Burke said "it is the pleasure in pain and terror"
we can feel the clash between the noisy citeis and the coutryards where people were in peace, meditating...
poets bring autobiographycal material, their personal view of life in a intimate and more reflective way
romantic fiction
historical novels --> the intrest for the ancient past brought many writers to talk about middle ages and roman empire, mixed with imagined adventure for example Walter Scott's "Ivanhoe"
american prose --> in 1828 the "amercian dictionary of the english language" was published. since then many short stories were pubblished (Edgar Alla Poe among everyone else)
novel of manners --> the new middle class in everyday situation and the relationship between manners, social behaviour and characters. the main themes are marriage, friendship, passion... the most important writer of this kind of novel is Jane Austen
the emphasis on the individual brought a deep psychological insight, a more described relationship between social classes and more self-realisation even in novels