ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

EARLY BRITISH LITERATURE

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What time period did the romantic era take place?
A
late 18th to early 19th
B
early 18th to late 19th
C
late 17th to early 18th
D
late 19th to early 20th
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Romantic Period began roughly around 1798 and lasted until 1837. The political and economic atmosphere at the time heavily influenced this period, with many writers finding inspiration from the French Revolution. There was a lot of social change during this period.

Detailed explanation-2: -Romanticism began as a late eighteenth-century philosophy that embraced imagination, emotion, and the unknown. Affecting history, literature, religion, art, and home life, Romanticism offered an escape from the stresses of the early Industrial Revolution.

Detailed explanation-3: -Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century; in most areas it was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.

Detailed explanation-4: -Beginning with the late-18th to the mid-19th century, new Romantic attitude begun to characterize culture and many art works in Western civilization. It started as an artistic and intellectual movement that emphasized a revulsion against established values (social order and religion).

Detailed explanation-5: -30 Romanticism. Romanticism, fueled by the French Revolution, was a reaction to the scientific rationalism and classicism of the Age of Enlightenment. The ideals of the French Revolution created the context from which both Romanticism and the Counter-Enlightenment emerged.

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