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characteristics
prose poetry

Romanticism 1) It came as a reaction against: Celebration of: Jane Austen William B

An artistic,  Imagination over Mary Shelley William
 The enlightenment reason. wordswor
intellectual and
 Intuition over
literary movement
 Neoclassicism deduction and
that originated in rationality.
western Europe in  Industrialisation,  Idealism:
the mid 18th glorification and
century( 1750’s) urbanization, consumerism
love of nature
 Secularism  Inspiration
 The individual.
2) It was influenced by:
It was characterised
by:
The French revolution equality,
 Appreciation of
fraternity and liberty
nature
 An interest in the
 Jean Jacques Rousseau
innocent child and
(Emile)
the primitive men.
 Thomas Chatterton (the
 Celebration of the
doomed artist, romantic hero)
individual rebel
 Johann Von Goethe
and a focus on his
(unrequited love, the Sorrows
passions and
of young Werther)
struggles.
 An interest in the
medieval era, and a
predilection of the
exotic, the remote,
and the mysterious.
 Return to gothic
elements and
supernatural
phenomena.
 An interest in the
sublime.
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realism Charles Alfred
Dickens Tennyso
Henry Thomas
hardy
james Oscar w
Mark twain
naturalism Stephan
crane
Jack London
Emile zola

modernism Virginia T.S. Eli

Woolf Ezra Po
James Joyce
William
Faulkner

postmodernism George Sylvia P

Orwell
Adalus
Huxley