Romanticism

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Romanticism
By Kelsey Neipris Ryan LaFerrera Michelle
McCausland Britney Meraz Skye Aparicio
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What is Romanticism?
- Literary movement during the 18th century,
which gained strength in reaction to the
Industrial Revolution. - Emphasized emotion,
imagination, and nature as being above logic and
reason. - Drew from Medieval elements of art
and literature to escape the industrialism that
was occurring at the time.
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Liberty Leading the People
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The Fighting Temeraire
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Fashion
- Fuller skirts - Smaller waistlines -
Corsets, and layers Of petticoats
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Ethics Religion

• - Society becoming more secular
• Rise of the philosophes, and the questioning of
  traditional thought
• Beginning of the idea of natural rights

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Political

• Questioning of the tyranny of the monarchy and
  the divine right of kings
• Beginning of democracy and the idea of consent
  of the governed
• General reform of the government

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Intellectual

• The Enlightenment scientific thought, reason,
  and logic
• Economic and urban expansion
• General public has more access to and interest in
  literary, artistic, philosophical, and scientific
  works

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Key Elements

• Glorification of nature
• Religious mysticism
• Praise of the medieval, or the time before the
  Industrial Age
• Individualism

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Authors and their Contributions

• Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne 
• Thomas and Joseph Warton
• Thomas Chatterton
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 
• Alexander Pushkin
• Washington Irving
• Edgar Allen
• Henry David Thoreau 
• Ralph Waldo Emerson 

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Man vs Nature

• Nature as the representation of god in the
  natural universe.
• Man is one with nature and anything that happens
  with nature is beautiful.
• Nature influenced man in romanticism because
  anything having to do with nature is positive
  even if the outcome was negative.
• Romanticism is viewed as organic rather than
  scientific.

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Stylistic Devices

• Romantic writing is gruesome, over the top,
  unimaginable about what a persons willpower
  creates out of it. They will act on anything they
  can do to survive be out there and live life to
  the fullest. A romantic writer isnt afraid to
  put a character in the middle of a dessert with
  no food, and see what it can do, or be trapped in
  the middle of the ocean on an island.
• Romanticism is a type of movement of concern,
  impression, emotion and hopefulness for the
  character.
• Its a kind of culture to mankind wanting to
  escape the safe background and be one with
  nature. The writer itself uses imagination and
  fantasy to escaping the divine devastation of the
  city life. Its setting is rural, dark and gothic.
  This kind of writing demonstrates the concern of
  young children, lovers and caring of animals.

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Themes

• The evocation of criticism of the past
• The cult of sensibility with emphasis on women
  and children
• The heroic isolation of the artist/narrator
• Respect for a new, wilder untrammeled and pure
  nature

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Characteristics

• Rejects social norms and conventions
• Has the self as the center of his/her own
  existence
• Focused on his/her thoughts rather than actions
• triumph of the individual over the restraints of
  theological and social conventions
• regret for his actions
• self-criticism
• EXAMPLES Mr. Darcy from Pride And Prejudice,
  Andrei Balonsky from War and Peace

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Romanticism vs Modernism

• Romanticism
• emphasizes nature, emotions, and individual, and
  the embrace of the traditional
• embellishes and exaggerates the beauty of all
  things using long, drawn out, flowery sentences
• Modernism
• rejects tradition not only in culture but
  literature as well
• focuses on only the individual and his place in
  society
• uses short, fragmentary sentences.