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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