English Romanticism
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- Allegory
- A symbolic story that usually teaches a lesson.
- Gothic Romance
- Stresses majic, mystery, horror and superstition.
- Fantasy
- Breaks away from reality and establishes a world of its own through imagination.
- Romantic Epic
- Type of literature having a hero who performs brave deeds against great forces and odds who represents the best of his culture.
- Sensibility
- Awareness of the senses and feelings -- intuition.
- Primitivism
- Valuing simplicity, purity and the natural state of the most elemental man -- concept of "the noble savage"
- Focus on Nature
- Nature reflects the characters' feelings or is revered.
- Nostalgia
- Glorifided memory of the past
- Mysticism
- Focus on the spiritual level beyond the concrete, material level.
- Focus on the Unusual
- Stories are often set in unusual times and places, or subjects.
- Focus on the Individual
- Every individual, even the common man, is important.
- Intuition and Art is Intuitive
- We can know things through ur intuition and feelings, not just reason, Art is the reslt of intuitive perception.
- Obsession
- Characters are often totally focused on one goal or one idea to the exclusion of others and everything else.
- Isolation
- In Hawthorne' stories, isolation is regarded as negative in breaking the bond with one's fellow man. Other Romantics regarded it as allowing the individual to think and sense the world around him/her.