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ROMANTIC PROSE - Coggle Diagram
ROMANTIC PROSE
four main genres of
Romantic novels
Gothic Novels
Novels of Purpose
(novel "Frankenstein")
Novels of Manners
(novel "Pride and Prejudice"
Historical Novels
combines interest in the past and traditions
contrast between individual freedom and social conventions
propagates ideas and raises people's consciousness
prose counterpart to pre-Romantic poetry
Jane Austen
(1775-1817)
Born in Hampshire,
she went to a boarding school
First English woman writer
novel
"Pride and Prejudice"
main charachters:
Elizabeth
Mr Darcy
THEMES:
Love and class consciousness,
condition of women's life,
relationship between individual and society
Mary Shelley
(1797-1851)
She never received any formal education
She married P. B. Shelley in 1818
novel "
Frankenstein, or the modern Prometheus
"
THEMES:
Monstrosity and social prejudice,
warning about the dangers of science