The romantic movement in literature began with the storming of the bastille
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6.Romanticism:From
The french revolution to the communist manifesto.This period ends in
The midle of 19 century w/ the communist manifesto. Theres both an
International and literal conflict in england. However,the religious
Conflicts is no longer decisive in political life.Theres also
Ecconomic transformations wich are the basis of conflicts.Conflicts
Bte classes; burgeoise and the level clasees, also btw the gentry and
Industrial bourgeoise->theres tension bc economics
Interests.General
Context:
Declaration of the rights of men,in Francia: terror in france,france
Becomes the 1 military power in Europe and invades other
Countries,Napoleon, economic crisis.In England: Nelson and
Wellington, Bethan defends reforms bc there was fear of the
Revolution may extend and Napoleonic war present in
Literature.Reactions
To the french revolution in england:-CONSERVATIVE:¨reflections
Of the revolution in france¨based in the principes of liberte,
Egalite et fraternite->he thought that this universal principles
Were too abstract.RADICAL:-spence and May Wallstonecraft.The
Realist novel vs. The gotic novel:The
Form of the novel was focused in the life of an individual.The Gothic
Novel was antirevoution, it didnt make reference to the
Industrisl revolution,it death with dramatic changes.They were 2
Diff. Responses to the period: -The Realist:it was comunicative and
It excludes deep and traumatic changes.-The gothic novel:oposed to
The realist;they cuestioned the question of the guide, theres no
Guide for the protagonist, and he/she wander 2 kinds of fear: to
Spectacular things and to methapisical things.Realist novel=concerns
W/verosimilitude.The
Material conditions of the production of literature:-The
Writer and his public.-Serialization in newspapers and instalments->
Related with the form of the novel. The serialization allows the
Writers to write and publish at the same time ,watching the reaction
That it causes.-The circullating libraries-> at that time books
Were quite expensive soy they lend books to readers for a smaller
Price.-Consorship.-Ways of reading->group,familiar or individual
Reading.POETICS:
Romantic poetry:-Complexity
Of the movement.-Reactions against the elighteriment: emotion vs
Reason and nationalism vs universalism.-Reaction against
Mechanization.-Influences: ¨Emile ou de léducation¨.-Change of
Sensibility and new poetic language: new things bc important for the
Poet. New poetic language , new themes, new mytology(Christian).-The
Centrality of the subjectivity vs. Individualism,-Internalization of
Thr Quest Myth->diff. Btw an empirical search, travel or journey
W/ a series of adventures and a spiritual journey of the Christian
soul but it ends with the discovery of the infinitude of the
Romantic subject.-The romantic imagination: symbol and vision must be
Studied together in order to see the tensions and the contraditions
Involved in the poem.The romantic subject is the subject of the
Sublime.-The romantic Symbol. Symbol vs. Allegory: most problematic
Element of romanticism.SYMBOL: expresive,motivated,w/ an inmament
Meaning.ALLEGORY :unmotivated,arbitrary, artificial, doesnt expres an
Inminet meaning.While the symbol expresses an immanent and motivated
Meaning, a natural connection btw the symbol and the meaning it
Refers to the allegory is arbitrary thers no natural conection or
Basis btw the 2 meanings.-The egoistical sublime: ¨The solitary
Reaper¨The author is not really concerned or worried about living in
The fields.-The motion of the work of art and the idea of nature:
Expressive vs. Imitative art.-Main topics:Childhood and education;
Specially in Aesthetic education-> schiller: the world of
Imagination as a field of posibilities and schelling, nature as the
Source of power and art as its voice.-The individual and the social
Order: relation btw man-nature, imagination and sympathy, creativity,
Society and freedom.Organic
Form of the poem:
Its considered as an organism that breaths the same life as nature
Does.The poem is a living whole inhabited by the same spirit that
Inhabits nature.LITERARY
GENRES:1)POETICS:
The most important is preface and shelley.2)literary
Chriticism.3)poetics; Blake,
Wordsworth,coleridge,bryan,shelley,keats.3)Novel:-The ghotic
Novel(frankestein).-Historical movement:walter scott.-Bildungs
Roman.-Parodies(Jane Austen)The
Early victorian novel: -The
Thirties: novels of fashion and crime novels.-The Forties: we must
Highlight the Brontes sisters.ç