The Romantic Period

Romantic Period

• The word “romantic’” comes from the term “ROMANCE,” and romance was one of the most popular genres of medieval literature.

Romantic Period

• Medieval Connection:
• Romantic writers self-consciously used the elements of romance in an attempt to go back beyond the refinements of neoclassical literature to older types of writing that they saw as more “genuine”

Romantic Period

• The romance genre allowed writers to explore new, more PSYCHOLOGICAL AND MYSTERIOUS aspects of human experience.

Romantic Period

• The writers of the Romantic period lived in England during a time of SOCIAL UPHEAVAL.
• The INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION in England changed the way people lived, where people lived, and how business was done.
• (England changed from an agricultural society to an industrial nation w/ almost everyone living in the city)