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ENGLISH ROMANTICISM

Summary

what is it ?

The period, the literary mouvement, its characteristics, autors and their works, the historical and political contexts.

Romanticism is a new art for a new world. An art that destroys the classical norm, and an art without norm but eternally classical. An absolute art.” Pierre Wat, The Birth of Romantic Art.

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PERIOD and MOUVEMENT

BORN IN EUROPE

DATES: 1800-1850

Artistic and literary movement of the 18th and 19th centuries in revolt against the neoclassicism of previous centuries.

where: between néoclassicism & victorian

but what's the "romanticism" ?

Romanticism is defined by the absence of standards.

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HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL CONTEXT

industrial revolution

DATES:-1760 -1840 1) 1820 2) 1830 3) 1850

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AUTHORS AND THEIR WORKS.

William Wordsworth 1771-1850

MARY SHELLEY 1797-1851

Walter Scott 1771-1832

https://unartanglais.wordpress.com/2014/06/01/la-naissance-du-romantisme-en-angleterre/

https://engines-egr-uh-edu.translate.goog/english-romanticism/what-romanticism?_x_tr_sl=en&_x_tr_tl=fr&_x_tr_hl=fr&_x_tr_pto=rq

https://www.britannica.com/art/English-literature/The-Romantic-period

At the end of the 18th century, the beginnings of the industrial revolution began, which shifted the artisanal society to a commercial and individual society. This change would lead to a new literary movement that we are currently studying: British Romanticism, which would involve a revolt on social and political norms against the aristocrats of the Enlightenment, as well as a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature. Neoclassicism was a movement that implied an idealized form. People were perfected not as they necessarily were, but rather as an idealized version. Romanticism hated this idea.

The expression "english romanticism" was born in the Great-Bretagne in the end of the XVIII century. It appears between the 1800th and the 1850th after the classicism

Romanticism opposes classicism and, while inheriting the Enlightenment, rejects its rationalism.

The caracteristics of this literary mouvement is that we should stop talking about the society, we have to be spontaneous, have a lack of rules, to put first the imagination instead of the reason and the beauty standards, talking about love and the cult of the nature.

Conclusion, Romanticism is a way to free oneself from the norms of neoclassicism. We put aside idealization, perfection, to replace it with something irrational, something new that helps us imagine a world where everything is possible. Despite the fact that it will be replaced by the Victorian movement, which is characterized by a rather realistic world and the description of everyday life, Romanticism will be the factor of several fantastic works such as Frankenshtein, which will always be present in today's life due to its popularity.