ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -In the Romantic Period the tendency was for the writer to draw on his own personality either as illuminating case history or as a gesture of defiance of showmanship or ‘alienation’ rather than to objectify it in terms of a cause or a system.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Romantic Prose is often characterized by nature, solitude, missing realism, supernaturalism, spirituality etc. similar to Romantic poetry. The era of the early 19th century was of political, social, economic & religious upheavals. Politically, it was a transition from aristocratic rule to democracy.

Detailed explanation-3: -Characteristics of Romanticism. Romantic literature is marked by six primary characteristics: celebration of nature, focus on the individual and spirituality, celebration of isolation and melancholy, interest in the common man, idealization of women, and personification and pathetic fallacy.

Detailed explanation-4: -With its emphasis on the imagination and emotion, Romanticism emerged as a response to the disillusionment with the Enlightenment values of reason and order in the aftermath of the French Revolution of 1789.