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Literary research

Romantic period 1800-1825

Main question:

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In what way has literature been influenced by historical events and a country’s culture when comparing the USA and the UK in the Romantic Era? (Period 1800-1825)

What was defined as literature in the Romantic Era?

subquestion 1

English Romantic poetry was part of a broader, philosophical, literary, artistic and cultural European movement that began in the second half of the 18th century: the Romantic Movement. In response to the Enlightenment, romantics favoured more natural, emotional and personal themes.

Main Characteristics of Romanticism:

Main Characteristics

Romantic literature is characterized by six main features:

1. the celebration of nature.

2. The emphasis on the individual and spirituality.

3. The celebration of isolation and melancholy.

4. The interest in the common man.

5. The idealization of women.

6. The personification and pathetic fallacy.

English literature:

much was written in poems during the Romantic period. an example of a well-known poem on Romanticism is that of John Keats' To Autumn (1820)

are the songs of Spring?

Ay, where are they?

Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,-

While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,

And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;

Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn

Among the river sallows, borne aloft

Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;

UK

US literature

In America, the Romantic movement was also a reaction to the Enlightenment; there was written about the same subjects as the aforementioned England.

A lot was written in the form of poems, but also in books. Especially a lot was written about the individual as a reaction to the industrial revolution in America.

Some important poets from this period were Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson.

A special form of Romanticism is Gothic literature. Gothic literature was a little different. This branch of Romanticism is characterised by a preoccupation with gloom, mystery and terror. It often contained supernatural elements as well. Gothics believed that evil manifested itself in an individual when they were isolated from other people. Famous writers of the Dark Romantic period are Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving and Herman Melville.

US

What were the most important historical events between 1800 and 1850 in the UK and the US?

subquestion 2

- Queen Anna, house of Stuart

- House of Hanover

- Adam Smith and David Hume

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

- Satire

- French Revolution

What was daily life like and what were the social customs in the Romantic Era in the UK and the US?

subquestion 3

- ratio, reason, the search for general laws and the importance attached to objective facts

- Industrial Revolution

- the division of power

What are the themes of some major literary works from this period in the UK and the US?

subquestion 4

UK

- Sense and Sensibility

- Prometheus Unbound

US

- The legend of Sleepy Hollow

- The Last of the Mohicans

Main Question.

-Freedom/literature

-enlightment

Main question

Frankenstein:

Romanticism aspects:

- Unreachable love

- Destiny

- personal creativity

Book 1

Mary Shelly

The Prelude

Book 2

The work, written by the English poet William Wordsworth in 1805, is a poetic reflection on Wordsworth's own sense of his poetic vocation as it developed over the course of his life. But the focus and mood of the poem is very different from the Neoclassical period and clearly places it in the Romantic era. Wordsworth chooses his own mind and imagination as a worthy subject for an epic poem.

This spiritual autobiography is rooted in Wordsworth's metaphor that life is a journey where the end coincides with the beginning. The poem begins by describing a literal journey to the valley of Grasmere. The Prelude also recounts a number of later journeys, most notably the crossing of the Alps in Book VI and, climaxing at the beginning of the latter book, the ascent of Snowdon. Over the course of the poem, such literal journeys become the metaphorical vehicle for a spiritual journey - the search in the poet's memory.

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