Romanticism Flashcards
When and where did the Romantic movement begin?
Europe near the end of the 18th century
What are some characteristics of romanticism
emphasis on individuality, idealisation of nature, glorification of the past (particularly medieval), rejection of science and industrial, intense emotion
Where did romanticism draw inspiration from
Medievalism
What caused the Romantic appreciation of nature
Population growth, industrialism and urban sprawl
What is the German movement which began as a response to rationalism in the 1760s
Strum und Drang (Storm and Stress)
Which revolution heavily influenced the romantic period
The French Revolution
Where does the term “romanticism” orginiate
the word “roman” meaning ‘novel’ or popular - used as a contrast to ‘classic’
What features were common of gothic fiction
Focus on fear (particularly caused by the external environment), supernatural threat, hauntings and the past intruding on the present
What was the first work identified by the author as gothic
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole (1764)
Which gothic novels by Ann Radcliffe were particularly popular?
The Romance of the Forest and The Mystery of Udolpho
When was the second wave of the Gothic novel
The 1810s
What was ‘The Sublime’
A concept describing the use of language or description to move the reader to thoughts or emotions beyond ordinary experience, which may be positive or negative
Which two poets kicked off the Romantic poet movement
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Who are the best known Romantic poets
John Keats, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron and William Blake
Who are the first generation romantics
Blake, Wordsworth and Coleridge
Who are the second generation Romantics
Byron, Shelley and Keats
Who were known as the Lake Poets, for living in the Lake District at the start of the 19th century
Wordsworth, Coleridge and Robert Southey
Who is considered the most famous female writer in Western Literature
Jane Austen
What issues are often explored in Jane Austen’s works
women’s dependency and the necessary pursuit of marriage for social standing and economic security
Which writer is known for his gothic poetry and short stories about the mysterious and the macabre
Edgar Allen Poe
Who is thought to be the first American writer to earn a living purely through writing
Poe
What are common themes in the works of Edgar Allen Poe
focus on death by looking at it from angles such as the effects of decomposition, premature burial, physical signs of death, the reanimation of the dead and mourning
Who is widely regarded as the most influential writer in the German language
Johann Wolfgang von Geothe
Which work by Johann Wolfgang von Geothe is considered history’s first ‘best-seller’
The Sorrows of Young Werther
What play by Geothe is a tragedy following the experiences of a doctor who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and power?
Faust
What is a closest drama
Drama intended to be read rather than performed
