Romantic Period 1789 - 1832
Major Romantics
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
Frankenstein Reading Assignment by Mary Shelley
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Mary Shelley Bio
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In-Class Reading for those who were absent
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Characteristics of Gothic Novels
- Setting in a castle or mansions
- An atmosphere of mystery and suspense pervaded by threatening feeling
- An ancient and obscure prophecy may be connected with the castle or its inhabitants (either former or present).
- Character may have omens, portents, visions.
- Supernatural or otherwise inexplicable and dramatic events may occur.
- Characters may have high, even overwrought emotion resulting in crying and emotional speeches.
- Female characters are often in distress and are oppressed in order to gain sympathy of the readers.
- Women are threatened by a powerful and tyrannical male.
- The metonymy of gloom and horror. Metonymy is a subtype of metaphor, in which something (like rain) is used to stand for something else (like sorrow). For example, the film industry likes to use metonymy, so we often notice that it is raining in funeral scenes.
Lord Byron
"The Destruction of Sennacherib" by Lord Byron
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William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Read by Various Readers
University of Plymouth
Read by Various Readers
University of Plymouth
"Kubla Khan"
John Keats
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"Ode to a Grecian Urn"
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"When I Have Fears"
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