Monday 12 September 2011

What is the theme of nature in Romantic literature?

In works
falling into the genre of Romanticism, nature was highlighted as being theto what the writers of
the period were protesting against. Their portrayal and oftenof nature was a reaction against
the industrialisation of the period and the issues that came with it. Writers in this movement
saw industrialisation as a process that destroyed the agrarian economy and gave rise to poverty,
crime and overcrowding in the cities. Their descriptions of cities are very bleak. Images of the
cities are juxtaposed with those of the natural world....




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