The Romantic Period

Romantic Period

• Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein calls into QUESTION THE AIMS and METHODS OF SCIENCE…we’ll explore this more while we study the novel…..Muah Ha HA HAAA
• You experienced this questioning in the FOREWORD of the novel

Romantic Period

• Romantic literature that included the elements of mystery, horror, and the supernatural is known as GOTHIC
• Frankenstein is a Gothic Novel

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Gothic Literature

• Gothic novels tended to feature
• TROUBLESOME TONES
• REMOTE SETTINGS
• MYSTERIOUS EVENTS

Gothic Literature

• The characters’ INNER EMOTIONAL LIVES receive a lot of attention.

Gothic Literature

• The struggle between GOOD vs. EVIL is prominent

That’s all folks…

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Romantic Poets/Poetry

• The Romantic period could be argued to start with the selling of Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems

Romantic Poets/Poetry

• Lyrical Ballads was written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth.
• Included Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Wordsworth’s Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey.

Romantic Poets/Poetry

• The era has been most identified with with six poets:
• William Blake
• William Wordsworth
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Percy Bysshe Shelley
• John Keats
• George Gordon “Lord Byron”

Romantic Poets/Poetry

• Remember, before this time the American Revolution had taken place and the French Revolution was taking place.

Romantic Poets/Poetry

• The American Rev. not only cost England economically, but it was also a loss of prestige and confidence.

Romantic Poets/Poetry

• The French Rev. was a prime example of an anointed king being OVERTHROWN by a democratic mob.
• French Rev. meant the triumph of radical principles…the English worried this would spread.