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The Romantic Movement
(1785-1832)
Stuff Happening: 1785-1832• 1783: Treaty of Paris
ends American Revolution
• 1788: Great Britain begins sending convicts to Australia, rather than America
• 1789: Storming of the Bastille!
• 1791: Mozart dies in Vienna
• 1799: Napoleon.• 1800: World
Population about one billion
• 1801: United Kingdom formed
• 1802: Slave rebellion in Haiti
• 1803: Louisiana Purchase, Morphine derived from opium
• 1807: UK outlaws slave trade across Atlantic
• 1811: King George III is declared insane – Regency Period
• 1815: Napoleon defeated at Waterloo
• 1829: Scotch Tape invented
• 1830: First railway station in US opens, lawn mower and sewing machine invented
Terms Explained
• romance: the actions and feelings of people who are in love, especially behavior which is very caring or affectionate.
• Romance: episodic narratives concerned with the exploits of knights, chivalry, and courtly love (generally Medieval)
• Romanticism: a literary style and philosophy focused on subjective experience, nature, imagination, and the individual (late 1700s)
The Romantic Creed
“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.”– William Wordsworth, The Preface
to Lyrical Ballads
Tenets of Romanticism
• Nature is beautiful, powerful, untamable – Humanity must look to Nature to
understand itself• Emotions are important • Poetry should be about common
people!– Written in common language,
accessible– Common people are closer to
nature, less artificial
Romanticism is Reactionary!
Pre-Romanticism• Industrialization
and Urbanization
• Enlightenment: Reason over Emotion
• Enlightenment: All about the over-educated
• American and French Revolutions
Romanticism• Industry is
artificial, Nature is Real
• Emotion over Reason!
• The common people are Real, should have voice
• The commoners do have power!
Pre-Romantics
• Pre-Romantic Poetry: – Romantic tendencies
• Emotional explorations• Nature is powerful and untamed
– Neoclassic influences• Imitating traditional literary forms
Thomas GrayRobert BurnsWilliam Blake
Romantics!
First Generation
• William Wordsworth• Samuel Taylor
Coleridge
Second Generation– About twenty years
younger• Lord Byron• Percy Bysshe Shelley• John Keats
There’s Prose too!
• Gothic Novels: so Romantic--suspense, mystery, magic, the macabre, untamed nature, and Medieval settings– Ann Radcliffe, Mary Shelley
• Novel of Manners: satirical look at society– Jane Austen.
• Historical Romance Novels: set in a period before the life of their author (often medieval), with fictional and nonfictional characters– Sir Walter Scott