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ELA notes Romanticism:attitude or intellectual orientation that characterized many works of literature, painting, music, architecture, criticism, and historiography in Western civilization over a period from the late 18th to the mid-19th century. A late 18 th centry movement in arts and literature t...

ELA notes Romanticism:attitude or intellectual orientation that characterized many works of literature, painting, music, architecture, criticism, and historiography in Western civilization over a period from the late 18th to the mid-19th century. A late 18 th centry movement in arts and literature that emphaizes imagination. the irrational and nature rejecting modernity and industritisation. The effect of industritisation: rise in a new class of factory owner growth rich mechanized production cheaper products charles dickens --- oliver twist ludidies--- felt that industrialization was ultimately inhumane and took to protesting and sometimes sabotaging industrial machines and factories. chimney sweeper deism: through rational cogical observation of nature you can understand romantieism imagination take you closer experience the embeded narrative 这个是在故事中的故事 epistotay narrative- frame story chapter1 the discover the secret of magietism the second propose might be to discover the north area vocab Fortitude strength of mind that enables a person to encounter danger or bear pain or adversity with courage. enticement Attraction, séduction, tentation. sentence:Your wants will be answered with delicious enticement. dejection a sad and depressed state; low spirits. sentence:He wandered around in a state of utter dejection. ardent enthusiastic or passionate. sentence: I am an ardent fan of keith haring. voyage 1. : an act or instance of traveling : journey. bestone confer or present (an honor, right, or gift). disposition a person's inherent qualities of mind and character. albatross Great albatrosses are among the largest of flying birds The rime of the ancient mainer what is the relevance of Robert walton’s allusion to Coleridge ‘s connection bewteen the poem’ The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ It act as a cauion -Nature Nature is presented as a work of art, constructed by a divine imagination Nature was a healing power and refuge from the artificial constraints of civilization. Nature is ‘organic’, not artificial. (imagination and emotion can take humans closer to God /the divine) -Critique Against the Scientific Rationalization of Nature: Romantics believed that science can only know the secondary, not primary qualities of experience. There is knowledge which could be only accessible with direct subjective experience. -Critique of the Pursuit of Knowledge: Romanticism criticized the insatiable pursuit of knowledge. Romantic writers and artists believed that the uncontrolled, insatiable pursuit of knowledge could lead to disastrous or tragic consequences. (ex: Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein) -The Romantic Hero: A character who rejects and challenges tradition and convention, but is rejected by society. The Romantic Hero seeks truth and solitude in nature and pursues a high & lofty goal. Byronic Hero: The Bryonic Hero distrusts humanity and is often haunted by a dark memory or secret from the past.  Gothic literature  Lord Byron -The Sublime: Edmund Burke’s ‘Philosophical Enquiry’  nature is the most sublime object. It generates the strongest emotional sensation. (sublime is connected with the experience of awe, terror, and danger). Sublime: a feeling associated with strong emotions in front of intense natural phenomena. Natural experiences give us a humbling experience of the wonder and majesty of the natural world. Italian Renaissance Artist – Gothic: anything that comes from the uncivilized world (not from ancient Greece and Rome) Gothic literature: combines romance and horror in an attempt to thrill and terrify the reader. First Gothic novel: Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1764) Alchemy Definition: medieval chemical science and philosophy system Aim: transmutation of base metals (iron, copper) into noble metals - gold Mary Shelley: "sad trash"; outdated knowledge-"exploded system" Chaos: mythological void state preceding the creation of the universe (the cosmos) in early Greek cosmologyThree Alchemists Cornelius Agrippa Paracelsus Albertus Magnus Victor's interest: 1. personal glory and his fear of death 2. supernatural potentials Electricity Frankenstein: practical applications of distillation, the use of steam and the air-pump interst: modern sciences relates to his first encounter with an electrical storm Pathetic Fallacy Definition: the use of weather pattern, to reflect iner emotional slate of characters Volume 2 Chapter 1 capable of love, virtue and kindness sense of guilt and remorse