The Romantics
Romanticism
is a movement in the 18th and 19th century in England. It displays such variety in style, theme, and content and also had its greatest influence from the end of the eighteenth century up through about 1870. Romanticism was mainly based on individuals and focus more on just their thoughts and actions. Some popular author of romanticism were Nathaniel Hawthorne who wrote The Scarlet Letter and Emily Bronte author of Wuthering Heights.
Gothic Romanticism
is based primarily in the 18th century, in England. It is a Subgenre of Romanticism with horror and romance. One very famous Gothic Romanticism author is Edgar Allen Poe who wrote The Black Cat.
Southern Gothic Romanticism
is a subgenre of Gothic Fiction, it has main features of freakishness, imprisonment, violence, and sense of place. Also Southern Gothic Fiction is based in the American South. Southern Gothic Romanticism uses gothic tools for suspense and also to show social issues and cultural of the American South. One well known Southern Gothic Romanticism author is Flannery O'Connor who wrote
To Kill A Mockingbird.
Romantic Authors
Washington Irving
was a American author widely known for his stories The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle. He was named after the American president George Washington who won independence during the American Revolution. Washington was the first American literary humorist and the first to write history and biography as entertainment. He was the famed essayist, biographer, historian, writer, politician, and was often referred to as "The Father of American Literature".
Edgar Allan Poe
was an American author, poet, editor, literary critic, and considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Poe was mainly known for his stories of mystery and the macabre, he was also considered the inventor of detective fiction genre. Poe's works influenced literature in the United States and around the world, and in other fields like cosmology. Some of Poe's great works were The Black Cat and The Raven.
Charles Baudelaire
was a French Poet who produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe. Baudelaire's most famous work was
Les Fleurs du mal and his most original style of prose-poetry influenced another whole generation of writers including Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
wrote short stories and was an American Novelist. Hawthorne' s name was originally Hathorne but soon change it due to relation of a judge who repented during the Salem Witch Trials. His first work was
Fanshawe but later wanted to suppress it because he didn't think it was good enough. Many of his works were based on moral allegories that had a Puritan inspiration. One of Hawthorne's most famous works is
The Scarlet Letter.
Flannery O'Connor
was an essayist and an American writer. O'Connor had wrote 32 short stories and 2 novels throughout her time along with other reviews and commentaries. She was known as a Southern writer so she wrote in Southern Gothic most of the time and also mainly focused on religion settings and grotesque characters. Many of her writings reflected her own Roman Catholic faith and often times examined questions on morality and ethics. One of Flannery O'Connor' s short stories was
A Good Man is Hard To Find.
William Faulkner
was a American writer but also a Noble Prize laureate. Faulkner wrote many novels, short stories, screenplays, poetry, essays, and plays but is mostly known for his novels and short stories. He is one of the most important writers in American literature and specifically Southern literature. Faulkner was actually unknown until he received the Nobel Prize for literature. His novel The Sound and The Fury was number 6 on the list of 100 best English-Language novels of the 20th century.
Wallis Willis
was a Choctaw freedman who lived in the Indian territory, and got his name from his owner Britt Willis. He was a composer of spirituals and his most well known song is "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" which was based on escaping from slavery and being taken into heaven.
Words to Remember
example: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Call and Response: a musical phrase in which the first and often solo part is answered by a second and often ensemble part
example: My Generation
example: The Crucibles motif is fire
example: rock, pop, country, jazz, etc.
Situational: the effects of the action are opposite of what was intended, if the situation is the opposite of what was intended the actions can be taken the wrong way
Dramatic: when am event occurs but only the audience knows it has happened, in Romeo and Juliet, only the audience knows that Juliet is going to come back and not be dead but Romeo doesn't know and he ends up killing himself over it
Verbal: when something is said but means something else, "soft like a brick"
Themes
One theme throughout this unit is
your beliefs can affect the way you look at things and the actions you do. Not everyone has the same beliefs but everyone follows what they believe in and whatever they think is right they are going to do even if it isn't normal to everyone else. Another theme in the unit is
do what you believe is right for yourself, not everyone is alike, people do what they believe and roll. These themes can be relatable to todays society as well because everyone changes and styles change throughout time and so does society and not everyone wants to adjust to that.
