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    Romanticism Romanticism. An artistic and ideological movement in literature‚ art‚ and music and a world view which arose toward the end of the 18th century in Germany‚ England‚ and France. In the beginning of the 19th century it spread to Russia‚ Poland‚ and Austria‚ and in the mid-19th century it encompassed other countries of Europe as well as North and South America. Romanticism‚ which appeared after the French Revolution in an environment of growing absolutism at the turn of the 19th century

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    Romanticism in Literature Romanticism was arguably the largest artistic movement of the late 1700s. Its influence was felt across continents and through every artistic discipline into the mid-nineteenth century and many of its values and beliefs can still be seen in contemporary poetry. The romantic poets had high regard and appreciation of nature‚ beauty and the passive‚ female aspect of life. The six most well-known English authors are Blake‚ William Wordsworth‚ Samuel Taylor Coleridge‚ Lord

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    ROMANTICISM What is Romanticism? In literature‚ it was a movement that took place in most countries of the Western World in the late 18th and 19th centuries. It was thought of as a counter-Enlightenment movement. The Romantic period was a very important period of the history of the England. Romantics generally believed in the uniqueness of individual expression as it is attributed by life experience‚ an important dimension of which is frequently national character. The Nature of Romanticism

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    New The Victorian Age transformed the minds of the people of Europe. It challenged the ideas and views they came to understand‚ it created uproars of movements and different bodies of thinking. The growth of an age can be seen through the people who’ve lived through it and how their lives have changed. England quickly became a developing world power with these movements. During the span of this semester‚ we have studied and learned how this change came to be. We studied the literature of the period

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    “Byronic hero“ and his evolution within the Victorian literature Lord Byron is one of the most famous and influential writers of the Romantic period and literature overall‚ which is largely due to his evermore interesting type of hero. Inspired by Milton ’s Satan‚ Byron took over the figure of heroic character and perfected it in his poem Childe Harold into a figure which has thereafter become known as the “Byronic hero“. Many critics agree that Byron ’s inspiration for this character lies largely

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    Obedience in Children’s Literature during the Victorian Age Table of Contents 1. Introduction 3 2. Teaching Obedience through Text - Historical Development 3 3. The Victorian Age - a time of change 6 3.1 Broad themes of change 6 3.2 changes in society 6 3.3 Interim Conclusion 7 4. Obedience in Children’s Fiction - Tradition and Change 7 4.1 Kingsley’s The Water Babies 8 4.2 Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and what Alice found there

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    Romanticism: Be Naturally Unique Ralph Waldo Emerson once said‚ “to be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” The people from the Romanticism period in Europe during the nineteenth century would strongly agree with Emerson’s words. Romantics thought it was important to be different and unique. Romantics are: Sensitive‚ emotional‚ prefer color to form‚ the exotic to the familiar‚ [are] eager for…adventure…of fantasy‚ [are] insistent

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    Romanticism Romanticism was created by artists who had introduced this art movement in 1750 and 1850‚ which originated from Western Europe indicating the feelings towards the aristocratic‚ social and political to remove the strict rules of classicism. This specific art movement was based from the individualism‚ subjectivism‚ irrationalism‚ imagination‚ emotions and nature of a person’s understanding. Since they were in revolt against the orders‚ they favoured the revival of potentially unlimited

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    Makayla Joseph Ms. Oville English III Honors- 1st Hour December 7‚ 2012 Essays: Option 1 Romanticism Write an essay that classifies Theodore Gericault’s painting The Raft of the Medusa and William Woodsworth’s poem “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” as romantic by identifying and explaining how specific examples from both works reflect three different characteristics of the Romantic period. In class we talked about Theodore Gericault’s painting The Raft of the Medusa in reference to the

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    Short Paper 2: Romanticism First coined in 1798 by Schlegel‚ Romanticism described an overt reaction against the Enlightenment and classical culture of the eighteenth century. Europe’s Classical past and the values it had attained were disintegrating. The paintings in this era showed the emotional attachment to victims of society. A lot of the work also always pitted the human against nature. The Romantics were devoted to seeing the beauty in nature through their own experiences. During this

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