ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Dark Romanticism began as a response to the Transcendental movement of the mid-nineteenth century. This was a mental shift in thinking from rigid religious Puritan/Anglo-Saxon thought to a dark, immoral point of view. People were disinterested in optimism when they considered their sin and human nature.

Detailed explanation-2: -Dark Romantics focus on human fallibility, self-destruction, judgement, punishment, as well as the psychological effects of guilt and sin. Authors who embrace this genre include Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Emily Dickinson.

Detailed explanation-3: -For these Dark Romantics, the natural world is dark, decaying, and mysterious; when it does reveal truth to man, its revelations are evil and hellish.

Detailed explanation-4: -As a literary genre, dark romanticism tends to be engaged with the idea of darkness in the human soul, the concept of original sin, or a certain dark outlook on society in general. In traditional American studies, writers like Nathaniel Hawthorne and Emily Dickinson represent this genre.