EN 206- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 23 pages long!)
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Romanticism- diverse and complex period: term applied after the romantic period, writers were referred to as parts of different sets, geography, social class. Individual imagination: subjective experience, natural world of being, mystical, higher power, suffering artist, aligned with gothic literature. Revolution: focus on individuality parallels french revolution and potential for reform. Opposition to hierarchy: critique of social hierarchy that belittled the lower class, breaking previous rules to express themselves as writers. Industrialism and enclosure: antithetical to industrialism even though industrialism was for the same ideas of romantics, abolition, suffrage. Gender: women writers were more accepted than they had previously been, men wrote about their person inner lives. Fantasy: believed there was more than just what meets the eye, led to a world of magic and questioning as well as imagining. Education: books were produced more because of industrialization and accessibility made people more inclined to read and pick up books.
