@candle light/Sngou/sem 4/European fiction /Block 1/Romantic Movement

Hello dear learners. Today we are going to discuss about Romantic Movement in European Fiction, Block 1, Literary Context 1. There is a topic called Romantic Movement in that. Let's discuss about that Romantic Movement today. We have studied about Romantic Movement in last semester and first semester. Still we are going to discuss about that Romantic Movement in 4th semester. Romantic Movement is a major literary and cultural shift. Romantic Movement started in 1850 and it emerged as a reaction against the ideas of Enlightenment period. Romanticism started in the German and English literary tradition. It influenced soon spread to Russia, Italy, France and other countries too. Romantic Movement is called as Golden Age or Golden Era of English Literature. The key idea of Romantic Movement was the celebration of individualism, emotions and subjective feelings. The French Revolution of 1789 was a major inspiration for many early Romantic writers and poets. Central to Romanticism was the idea of Romantic hero and anti-establishment rebellious character. The characters of Romantic hero and anti-establishment rebellious character were against the authorities. The playwright Percy Bysshe Shelley picked this idea in his work Prometheus Unbound. Romantic poetry focused on the subjective and personal responses nature could provoke in the poet's mind. The British poet William Wordsworth defined poetry as The quotation highlights the importance of imagination in the context of romanticism. and romantic movement also turn to the past medieval history. Not only this, there are works on medieval history, traditions, folklore, etc. Historical novels of Walter Scott set in medieval Scotland became hugely popular at this time as they evoked a romanticized feeling. The setting of the story is set in the historical novel of Walter Scott. In this novel, he talks about the romanticized version of the past. He wrote this novel with his own imagination and his own changes. All these are the characteristics of gothic fiction. Dark, death, terror, supernatural beings, etc. Gothic fiction is about such stories. Romantic literary genre also includes gothic fiction and novels. Gothic novels have been written more in this romantic period. Valpole's Castle of Otranto, Goethe's Faust, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, etc. These are the stories in gothic fiction. Overall, the romantic movement represents a shift in art and literature away from the ideas of formality, rationality, and restraint that had defined the previous age. Romantic period literature was different from the literature and art of the Neoclassical period. The Neoclassical period literature was full of Artificial style. The Romantic period literature was full of Artificial style. This was revolutionary at a time when literary works typically only presented the lives of aristocrats and heroes. William Blake was perhaps the most radical precursor of Romanticism. William Blake was a radical thinker and writer.