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The Romantic Revolution. A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) Pre-romantic sensibility was characterised.

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1 The Romantic Revolution

2 A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) Pre-romantic sensibility was characterised by: a predilection for night, darkness and death; the cult of ruins; terror and fantasies; an interest in mediaeval and northern literature and folklore. The majority of these trends and interests were known as Gothic. In the Second Half of the 18th century…

3 The French Revolution and the impact it had on British culture and society. The revolutionary spirit took on various forms: a political and social revolution; a revolt against all forms of authority conflicting with human dignity; the free expression of personal feelings. The Romantic Revolution

4 Romanticism was a truly European movement: Germany: Goethe, Schiller, Herder (Sturm und Drang); France: Madame de Staël, Hugo; Italy: Berchet, Manzoni, Foscolo. European Romanticism

5 Feeling vs Rationality  instinct, feeling, intuition. Feelings and emotions were essential steps towards true knowledge. Imagination  the central point of the process of creation. It connected the mind of the individual with the physical world. Romantic Themes and Conventions

6 A love of nature  works contained many descriptions of nature. Romantic writers endowed natural scenes with life, passion and feeling. Commonplace and supernatural  ordinary life, dreams, nightmare and visions were cultivated by the Romantics. The universe was a living entity, which could reveal itself to man on two levels: the visible (nature) and the invisible (the supernatural). Romantic Themes and Conventions

7 Individualism  introspection, individualism. The Romantics’ individualism was also reflected in isolation from society. The ‘dark’ Romantic hero  a glorious failure, haunted by remorse for his faults and wasted opportunities. The Romantics show a marked interest in the strange, the uncommon and the forbidden. Romantic Themes and Conventions

8 Search for the infinite  it made the poet a prophet-like creature. It was destined to fail, but this gloriously impossible task was the artist’s noble mission. Romantic Themes and Conventions

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