Romanticism

A literary and artistic movement associated with the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that valued emotion, imagination, individual experience and nature.

An artistic and intellectual movement that developed in the late eighteenth century and emphasised emotion, imagination, individuality and the power of nature.

Romanticism developed in Europe towards the end of the eighteenth century. Romantic writers valued feeling, imagination and individual experience, and questioned the idea that reason alone could explain human life. Nature could inspire creativity, restore troubled emotions and remind people of forces greater than themselves.

A literary and artistic movement that values emotion, imagination and the power of nature. Frankenstein’s mountain scenes connect natural grandeur with intense personal feeling.

Connect Romanticism or the sublime to particular words and moments rather than adding a separate biographical paragraph.

Both parts: context earns no marks. Use Romanticism only when it helps explain a relevant reading, not as a detached historical paragraph.

A literary and artistic movement emphasising imagination, powerful feeling, individuality and the importance of nature.

An artistic and intellectual movement that developed in the late eighteenth century, valuing imagination, emotion and the natural world.

A cultural movement emphasising imagination, emotion, individuality and nature. The Romantic image of the exceptional, solitary genius helps explain both the appeal and the danger of Victor’s ambition.

An artistic and intellectual movement emerging in the late eighteenth century that valued emotion, imagination, individual experience and the natural world.

An artistic and literary movement that valued imagination, individual experience and nature, and often challenged established authority.

A late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century artistic movement that emphasised imagination, emotion, individual experience and the power of nature.

A literary movement associated with strong emotion, individual experience, imagination and an interest in nature.

An artistic and literary movement that valued emotion, imagination, individual freedom and the power of nature.

An artistic and intellectual movement of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that valued imagination, emotion, individuality and the power of nature.

Romanticism valued feeling, imagination and the individual’s experience of nature. It developed partly in response to confidence that reason and scientific knowledge could explain and control the world. Byron and Percy Shelley were major Romantic poets; Mary’s novel belongs to this wider intellectual and literary environment.

An artistic and intellectual movement that developed in the late eighteenth century, emphasising imagination, emotion and the importance of nature.

A cultural and literary movement associated with imagination, powerful feeling, nature and exceptional individuals.

An artistic and intellectual movement emerging in the late eighteenth century that valued emotion, imagination, individual experience and the natural world.

A literary and artistic movement emphasising imagination, strong emotion and nature, often exploring the past and the supernatural.

A literary and artistic movement prominent in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, valuing emotion, imagination and the natural world.

A literary and artistic movement that valued imagination, emotion and individual experience, often exploring nature’s power to shape human life.

A literary movement associated with imagination, individual feeling and the significance of nature.

An artistic and literary movement associated with the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, valuing imagination, individual feeling, nature and freedom.

A literary and artistic movement that valued emotion, imagination, individual experience and the natural world.

A literary and artistic movement associated with imagination, emotion, nature and an interest in freedom and extraordinary experiences.

A literary and artistic movement that placed particular value on emotion, imagination, individual experience and nature.

A literary and artistic movement that emphasised imagination, emotion and the significance of the natural world.

An artistic and literary movement that emphasised imagination, individual feeling and the significance of nature.

A literary and artistic movement associated with imagination, strong feeling and individual experience, often questioning established authority.

A movement associated with valuing imagination, emotion and the natural world, especially influential in poetry around the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

A literary and artistic movement that emphasised emotion, imagination, individual experience and the importance of nature.

An artistic and literary movement of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that valued emotion, imagination and the natural world.

An artistic and literary movement associated with the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, emphasising imagination, individual feeling and the importance of nature.

A literary movement that placed particular value on imagination, emotion, nature and individual experience.

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AQA GCSE English Literature · 8702

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