Romantic Period 1820 1900 Wanderer Above the Sea
Romantic Period 1820 -1900
Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog Caspar David Freidrich Germany 1818
Liberty Leading the People Eugenie Delacroix France 1830
The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse England 1832
Miranda
Circe
Pandora
The Course of Empire Thomas Cole American 1833 -36
• A revolt against: aristocracy, scientific advancement, and the rationalism of science • Emotion and imagination valued over reason • Man escapes industrialism and its effects (city, overcrowding, the masses, technology, science, classes), to find his own “nature” and self. • Nature is now valued, not as something to be measured and explained scientifically, but observed spiritually. • A romantic character may be expressed in the gifted, perhaps misunderstood loner, creatively following the dictates of his inspiration rather than the dictates of contemporary society
Mary Shelley
• Parents: Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin • Her parents' wedding • Mary’s Loneliness • Percy’s and Mary’s wedding
Tragedy Strikes • Percy’s wealthy father cut him off after his elopement (while still married to Harriet) to Mary. • Mary’s first child was born prematurely and died several days after her birth in 1815. • Mary’s half sister, Fanny, committed suicide two years after her marriage to Percy, in 1816 • Two months after that, Harriet drowned herself. • Mary’s second child, William, born in 1816 died three years later of Malaria. • Mary’s third child, Clara, was born in 1817, and died the next year • Her fourth child, Percy, born in 1817, did survive. • In 1822 Mary nearly bleeds to death from a miscarriage. • In 1822 Percy drowns
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