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INTRODUCTION

By the late 18th century in France and Germany, literary tastebegan to turn from classical and neoclassical conventions.

– The generation of revolution and wars, of stress and upheavalhad produced doubts on the security of the age of reason.

oubts and pessimism now challenged the hope and optimismof the 18th century.

– !en felt a deepened concern for the metaphysical problems ofe"istence, death, and eternity.

– #t was in this setting that $omanticism was born.


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Origin

$omanticism was a literary movement that swept through virtuallyevery country of %urope, the &nited 'tates, and (atin )merica thatlasted from about 1*+ to 18* . -owever, the $omantic !ovementdid not reach France until the18 /s.

– $omanticism/s essential spirit was one of revolt against anestablished order of things0against precise rules, laws, dogmas, andformulas that characteri ed 2lassicism in general and late18th0century 3eoclassicism in particular.

– #t praised imagination over reason, emotions over logic, andintuition over science0ma4ing way for a vast body of literature ofgreat sensibility and passion.


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– #n their choice of heroes, also, the romantic writers replaced thestatic universal types of classical 18th0century literature withmore comple", idiosyncratic characters.

– They became preoccupied with the genius, the hero, and thee"ceptional 5gure in general, and a focus on his passions andinner struggles and there was an emphasis on the e"aminationof human personality and its moods and mental potentialities.


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Nature

The $omantic association of nature and spirit e"pressed itself in one of two ways. Thelandscape was, on one hand regarded as an e"tension of the human personality, capableof sympathy with man/s emotional state.

9n other hand, nature was regarded as a vehicle for spirit =ust as man> the breath of God5lls both man and the earth. ? 'hroder, 8 @. elight in unspoiled scenery and i?presumably@ innocent life of rural dwellers was a popular literary theme. 9ften combinedwith this feeling for rural life is a generali ed romantic melancholy, a sense that change isimminent and that a way of life is being threatened.

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The Lure of the Exotic

#n the spirit of their new freedom, romantic writers in all culturese"panded their imaginary hori ons spatially and chronologically.

They turned bac4 to the !iddle )ges ?1 th century to 1+thcentury@ for themes and settings and had an obsessive interest in

fol4 culture, national and ethnic cultural origins. They found delight notions of romantic love , mystery ansuperstition, and placed an emphasis upon imagination as agateway to transcendent e"perience and spiritual truth.

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The Decline of Romanticism

– The Decline of RomanticismBy about the middle of the 1Ath century, romanticism began togive way to new literary movements the Carnassians and thesymbolist movement in poetry, and realism and naturalism.

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