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1、Romanticism,theGothicnovel,andWutheringHeightsRomanticism:RomanticismreferstoanartisticandintellectualmovementthatbeganinthelateeighteenthcenturyinEurope.Generally,RomanticismwasareactionagainstthedryrationalityoftheEnlightenmentperiod,itfocusedonthesublimityofnature,itandstressedstrongemotion
2、asthesourceofbeauty,art,andknowledge.TheRomanticliterarymovementwasheavilyinfluencedbytheGermanwriter,JohannWolfgangvonGoethe,andagroupofGermanRomanticwriterswhoemergedduringthelateeighteenthandearlynineteenthcenturies.EmilyBrontëwaslikelyexposedtoandinfluencedbytheGermanRomanticswhensheandCha
3、rlottestudiedliteratureandtheGermanlanguageinBrusselsataprivateschool.AgroupofBritishRomanticpoetsemergedinEnglandduring1798to1832,whichincludedWilliamWordsworth,LordByronandJohnKeats.Thesewritersinfluencedliteraturethroughoutthenineteenthcentury.TheBrontëswerealsofamiliarwiththewritingsofthes
4、eBritishRomanticpoets.Romanceisatermwithmanymeanings.IntheMiddleAges,aromancewasataleinproseorpoetrydealingwiththeadventuresofaknightandfilledwithchivalricdeedsandcourtlylove.Inthenineteenthcentury,aromancewasaprosenarrativetellingafictionalstorythatdealtwithitssubjectsandcharactersinasymbolic
5、,imaginative,andnon-realisticway.Typically,aromancewoulddealwithplotsandpeoplethatwereexotic,remoteintimeorplacefromthereader,andobviouslyimaginary.Hawthorne'sTheHouseofSevenGablesandTheScarletLetter,withtheirexaggeratedcharacters,itsovertonesofthesupernatural,andtheirsymbolicintertwiningofthe
6、pastandpresent,areexamplesoftheromance.****Romanticismgenerallyisdefinedasanapproachthatdiffersfromclassicisminmanyimportantways.ØRomanticthoughtplaceshigheremphasisonemotionthanonrationality;Øitexaltstheindividualoversociety;Øitquestionsorattacksrulesandconventions;ØitprefersNatureoverthecity
7、;Øitseeshumankindinnatureasbeingmorallysuperiortocivilizedhumanity(theconceptofthenoblesavage);Øitseeschildrenasessentiallyinnocent,untilcorruptedbytheirsurroundings.ØItsquestforemotionalfulfillmentmaytakeitinthedirectionofdarkRomantici
