Mary Shelley And Romanticism Mary Shelley Born Mary Wollstonecraft in 1797 Mother Mary Wollstonecraft Father William Godwin Published her 1 st poem when she was 10 years old Spent much of her teen years writing in Scotland ID: 340644
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FRANKENSTEIN
Mary
Shelley
And
Romanticism Slide2
Mary Shelley
Born Mary Wollstonecraft in 1797
Mother: Mary Wollstonecraft
Father: William Godwin
Published her 1
st
poem when she was 10 years old
Spent much of her teen years writing in Scotland
Returned to England when she was 16
Met and fell in love with Percy Bysshe Shelley
Their 3
children
died
Percy Shelley died in 1822
At 24, Mary Shelley was a widow. Slide3
FRANKENSTEIN
Published in 1818 when Mary was only 20 years old. She was challenged by Lord Byron to write a ghost story. Slide4
THE CHALLENGE
Introduction to
Frankenstein
Read pp.
760-764 in your literature books. Slide5
The Romantic Period:
Triumph of Imagination over Reason
In literature,
romantic
refers to a literary and philosophical movement that celebrated expressions of emotion, the power of imagination, the beauty of nature, and the importance of individual liberty. Romantic in the literary sense is more closely related to the idea of “hopeless romantic,” an idealist who is optimistic that the world will change for the better, than to the idea of romantic love. Slide6
Romantic Poetry
Romantic poets felt that poetry should be an expression of feeling written in simple, unadorned language.
Romantic poets were concerned with the poet’s individual feelings and experiences.
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NATURE
Nature is a typical subject associated with Romantic poetry, but it’s not the mere presence of nature that is significant in Romantic poetry. Instead, it is the relationship between nature and thinking. Nature serves as the medium through which the poet can introduce a problem and work toward its solution.Slide8
NATURE
Romantic poets felt a connection to nature and often personified it as a sublime entity. Nature was a restorative force, a force that could inspire individuals and elicit strong emotions.Slide9
Gothic Novels
While the lyric is often defined as the most important poetic genre of the Romantic Movement, the essay and the novel were also popular during this period. The novel, especially the Gothic, was also a popular genre for Romantic writers. Slide10Slide11Slide12Slide13Slide14
More Characteristics
Blood, pain, death
Cruelty
Characters with “aberrant psychological states”Events are uncanny, macabre, or melodramatically violent bordering between reality and unrealitySlide15
Purpose
To evoke “terror” versus “horror” in the reader because of situations bordering reality/ unreality.
Often used to teach a message.
May lack a Medieval setting but will develop an atmosphere of gloom and terror.