MARKET 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Lyrical Ballads, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Romanticism is connected with the rural setting, the inner self, feelings, nature. The creation of a human-self, the connection between nature and a human being, are typical for romanticism. The nature is violated by viktor frankenstein because it is unnatural to create a human being. British romanticism is the premature of the transcendentalism. It begins with the publication of the lyrical ballads: ralph waldo emerson (1803-1882) Philosopher, studied in harvard, he was a priest and therefore very religious until a personal life crisis. After this crisis he turns his back to religion but still kept himself busy with theological questions. He also was in touch with samuel taylor coleridge and williams. He gets familiar with the romantic literature after he spent some time in europe. He wrote three essays one of them was nature . The transcendentalists gathered around emerson and tried to reach changes in the cultural philosophy.
