romantic period (1790 - 1830)

• rebellion against the enlightenment focus on logic n reason

• includes development of gothic literature which overlaps romantic n victorian literary periods

• ‘transcendental’ movement in america (‘goodness’ of individual vs corruption of society)

• regency period in english history - strict social structures n norms

• industrial revolution

writers:

• coleridge

• blake

• keats

• percy shelley

• lord byron

• jane austen

key features:

• focus on nature, imagination, emotion, the individual

• glorification of beauty, esp of women

• connection to the supernatural

• continued questioning of religion