Romanticism

DEFINITION

Romanticism in Encyclopaedia Britannica is defined as “attitude or intellectual orientation that characterized many works of literature, painting, music, architecture, criticism and historiography in Western civilization over a period from late 18th to the mid-19th century.” (“Romanticism”)

CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES

(“Romanticism Characteristics: What Are They?”)

• Emotion and passion

• The critique of progress

• A return to the past

• An awe of nature

• The idealization of women

• The purity of childhood

• The search for subjective truth

• The celebration of the individual

• A break from convention

• Spirituality and the occult

EXAMPLES

• Percy Bysshe Shelley – Prometheus Unbound

• Emily Brontë – Wuthering Heights

• Charlotte Brontë – Jane Eyre

• Walter Scott – Ivanhoe

• Victor Hugo – The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Misérables

• Alexandr Dumas – The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo

SOURCES

“Romanticism.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, inc., 20 Sept. 2024, www.britannica.com/art/Romanticism.

Yang, Hannah. “Romanticism Characteristics: What Are They?” What Are the Most Important Characteristics of Romanticism?, 10 Nov. 2021, www.prowritingaid.com/romanticism-characteristics#head2.

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