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Title: Romantacism Notes
Description: Simple & very easy-to-understand notes on the main themes of the Romanticism Age and the influential people in it (including Byron, Wordsworth, etc.).
Description: Simple & very easy-to-understand notes on the main themes of the Romanticism Age and the influential people in it (including Byron, Wordsworth, etc.).
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Romanticism Notes
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Begins around 1798 (Western Europe), Ends around 1832
European development, ‘Romance’ means “freely imaginative idealizing fiction”
Romantic writers emphasized imagination & emotion
Championed the value of the individual
Freedom of tradition
Children seemed to be the perfect being because they feel, not think
Jean Jacques Rousseau, one of the most important Romantic writers (& the first)
William Wordsworth, speaks for nature
3 Key Themes
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Liberty: changing how people are free of society (you don’t have to go to Church to feel
God, you could just be sitting in a field during sunrise)
Nature: how simply opening up and enjoying nature can bring you to understanding of
yourself, God, society, etc
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Family
a
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Education/Wealth
a
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Lower-Middle Class
C
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Social behavior/problems
b
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Popularity
a
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One of two famous English novelist (next to Sir Walter Scott)
*Offers quit sense of how you can change home life (rest of poets focused on world change)
Pride and Prejudice
A
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Characters
a
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Darcy (rich dude)
C
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Compare/Contrast to Wordsworth/Coleridge/Byron
- Considered a Romantic novel because it possesses the ironic qualities of a romantic story
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When Elizabeth finally finds someone she wants to marry, it took that
person a little while and hard work to get there
Title: Romantacism Notes
Description: Simple & very easy-to-understand notes on the main themes of the Romanticism Age and the influential people in it (including Byron, Wordsworth, etc.).
Description: Simple & very easy-to-understand notes on the main themes of the Romanticism Age and the influential people in it (including Byron, Wordsworth, etc.).