Romanticism

Question 1

When and where did the Romantic movement begin?

Answer 1

Europe near the end of the 18th century

Question 2

What are some characteristics of romanticism

Answer 2

emphasis on individuality, idealisation of nature, glorification of the past (particularly medieval), rejection of science and industrial, intense emotion

Question 3

Where did romanticism draw inspiration from

Answer 3

Medievalism

Question 4

What caused the Romantic appreciation of nature

Answer 4

Population growth, industrialism and urban sprawl

Question 5

What is the German movement which began as a response to rationalism in the 1760s

Answer 5

Strum und Drang (Storm and Stress)

Question 6

Which revolution heavily influenced the romantic period

Answer 6

The French Revolution

Question 7

Where does the term “romanticism” orginiate

Answer 7

the word “roman” meaning ‘novel’ or popular - used as a contrast to ‘classic’

Question 8

What features were common of gothic fiction

Answer 8

Focus on fear (particularly caused by the external environment), supernatural threat, hauntings and the past intruding on the present

Question 9

What was the first work identified by the author as gothic

Answer 9

The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole (1764)

Question 10

Which gothic novels by Ann Radcliffe were particularly popular?

Answer 10

The Romance of the Forest and The Mystery of Udolpho

Question 11

When was the second wave of the Gothic novel

Answer 11

The 1810s

Question 12

What was ‘The Sublime’

Answer 12

A concept describing the use of language or description to move the reader to thoughts or emotions beyond ordinary experience, which may be positive or negative

Question 13

Which two poets kicked off the Romantic poet movement

Answer 13

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Question 14

Who are the best known Romantic poets

Answer 14

John Keats, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron and William Blake

Question 15

Who are the first generation romantics

Answer 15

Blake, Wordsworth and Coleridge

Question 16

Who are the second generation Romantics

Answer 16

Byron, Shelley and Keats

Question 17

Who were known as the Lake Poets, for living in the Lake District at the start of the 19th century

Answer 17

Wordsworth, Coleridge and Robert Southey

Question 18

Who is considered the most famous female writer in Western Literature

Answer 18

Jane Austen

Question 19

What issues are often explored in Jane Austen’s works

Answer 19

women’s dependency and the necessary pursuit of marriage for social standing and economic security

Question 20

Which writer is known for his gothic poetry and short stories about the mysterious and the macabre

Answer 20

Edgar Allen Poe

Question 21

Who is thought to be the first American writer to earn a living purely through writing

Answer 21

Poe

Question 22

What are common themes in the works of Edgar Allen Poe

Answer 22

focus on death by looking at it from angles such as the effects of decomposition, premature burial, physical signs of death, the reanimation of the dead and mourning

Question 23

Who is widely regarded as the most influential writer in the German language

Answer 23

Johann Wolfgang von Geothe

Question 24

Which work by Johann Wolfgang von Geothe is considered history’s first ‘best-seller’

Answer 24

The Sorrows of Young Werther

Question 25

What play by Geothe is a tragedy following the experiences of a doctor who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and power?

Answer 25

Faust