The Romantic Era 17851832

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The Romantic Era (1785-1832)

• artists, philosophers, and writers created works
  that celebrated emotion over reason, nature over
  human artifice, ordinary people over aristocrats,
  and spontaneity over control

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Politics of the Romantic Era

• King George III, ruled England from 1760-1820
• George IV ruled from 1820-1830
• William IV ruled from 1830-1837
• Weaknesses of these 3 kings led to strong prime
  ministers, which led to civil reformmore power
  to middle class, aristocracy no longer had
  overwhelming majorities in Parliment

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Pre-Romantic Poets

• Poets of this period showed tendencies toward
  Romanticism in their emotional explorations and
  in their perceptions of nature as wild and
  untamed however, they followed the Neoclassical
  model of imitating traditional literary forms.

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Pre-Romantic Poets

• Thomas Gray
• Robert Burns
• William Blake
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Romantic Era Poetry

• Publication of William Wordsworths Lyrical
  Ballads in 1798 is called the true beginning of
  the Romantic Era
• Wordsworths theory of poetry Poetry should be
  about common people and events and should be
  written in the language of ordinary men and women

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2nd Generation Romantic Poets

• George Gordon, Lord Byron
• Percy Bysshe Shelley
• John Keats
• These poets also celebrated emotion over reason
  and nature over science.

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Romantic Era Prose

• Major developments of two forms of prose were
  made during this timethe essay and the novel
• Three major types of novels emergedgothic
  novels, novel of manners, and historical romance
  novels

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Gothic Novels

• Also known as gothic romances
• Long stories containing elements of suspense,
  mystery, magic, and the macabre, with exotic
  settings such as haunted castles and untamed
  wilderness
• Mary Shelleys Frankenstein is an example

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Novel of Manners

• Presented a satirical look at society in
  book-length prose reminiscent of earlier works
• Jane Austen produced what are considered the
  greatest works in the genre (Sense and
  Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice)

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Historical Romance Novels

• Usually depict historical events and contain both
  fictional and non-fictional characters, set in a
  period before the life of the author
• Early novels were often set in medieval times,
  with knights and fair damsels as main characters
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