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romantic fiction, romantic imagination, veiw of nature & the cult of…

- - - - country
        
        codes and conventions
        
        main thems
        
        narrator
        
        dialogue
        
        passions and emotions
- - - - social classes
      - character's
      - psycological
      - dialogue
- - - - Nature, everyday life
      - Making the ordinary fascinating
      - Coleridge
        
        Supernatural
        
        Mystery
        
        Visionary themes
- - - - Beauty
      - Truth
      - Freedom
- - - - Making the ordinary fascinating
      - Coleridge
        
        Supernatural
        
        Mystery
        
        Visionary themes
      - Nature, everyday life
- - - - The outcast
      - The rebel
      - The atypical
    - - Natural behaviour = good (instinctive, impulsive)
      - Reason-based behaviour = negative
      - Social conventions
        
        corruption and evil
      - Civilization = oppressive restriction
      - “Noble savage”
        
        Possesses instinctive, superior knowledge
        
        Symbolic Romantic figure
        
        Appears primitive
- - - - God
      - Sources of creation
    - - Childhood = state to be:
        
        Cultivated
        
        Appreciated
        
        Admired
- - - - Noble savage
        
        Instinctive understanding of self and world
        
        Often superior to civilized man
        
        Appears primitive
      - Social conventions limit personality
      - Natural behaviour = good (instinctive, spontaneous)
      - Civilization = restriction + corruption
      - Reason- and rule-based behaviour = negative
- - - - Use of vivid, familiar words
      - Rejection of 18th-century artificial circumlocutions
      - Central issue in Romantic aesthetics
      - Role of Symbols and Images
        
        From decorative
        
        to essential
        
        Convey inner visionary perceptions