ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Romanticism is ____
A
desolate, full of remote settings, and violent.
B
an attitude toward nature, humanity and society emphasizing freedom, imagination, and individuality.
C
a philosophy that says truth is reached through intuition over reason.
D
events and social conditions presented as they really are, with no idealization.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -According to the romantics, the solution was “back to nature” because nature was seen as pure and a spiritual source of renewal. It was also a way out of the fumes of the growing industrial centres for the new industrial rich.

Detailed explanation-2: -Romanticism was characterized by its emphasis on emotion and individualism, clandestine literature, paganism, idealization of nature, suspicion of science and industrialization, as well as glorification of the past with a strong preference for the medieval rather than the classical.

Detailed explanation-3: -Romanticism is a literary movement spanning roughly 1790–1850. The movement was characterized by a celebration of nature and the common man, a focus on individual experience, an idealization of women, and an embrace of isolation and melancholy.

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