The romantic age (1789-1830)

• Shift: all about feelings.

• Industrial revolution- misery and poverty in the cities.
• Literature influenced by romantic ideas.
• Female writer Jane Austen.
• Celebration of the past- medival times.
• Folk tales, legends and myths became important.
• The fairy tale: eternal battle between good and evil.
• Gotihc stream
• The gothic theme was in novels and short stories.
• Adding supernatural elements, haunted house.
• Trying to make the reader feel fear.
• Poetry
• The major genre to express feelings and imagination.
• Based on emotiones and turns to nature as a source of knowledge.
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