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Newman and Rousseau: Victorian and Romantic Ideas of Religion

support of it. If Rousseau is a Romantic and Newman a Victorian, it seems that the difference lies in the fact that Rousseau wants...

Emma Bovary's Lack of Intellectual Stimulation in Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

In five pages this paper examines how Emma was motivated by the lack of intellectual stimulation from her marriage to country doct...

Comparing the Poetic Styles of William Wordsworth and Percy Bysshe Shelley

A paper consisting of five pages compares and contrasts the Romantic poetic styles of Wordsworth's 'A Complaint' and Shelley's 'A ...

Controversy and Kudos -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

One of England's foremost poet and philosopher-critic during the Romantic Movement, Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote some of the grea...

Reason, Romance, and the Enlightenment

In seven pages this paper considers the seemingly opposing views of romantic emotion, reason principles, and the Enlightenment, wh...

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

In a paper consisting of five pages the love between Darcy and Elizabeth is examined within the context of Austen's romantic comed...

English Literature and Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

an employee of the Company who has become erratic, and bring him home. In so doing, Marlow has to face his own "heart of darkness"...

Fiction Writing and Philosophy of the Romantic Era

truly fulfilled, and in fact he likens this fulfillment to a nearly spiritual ideal. On the other hand, there was...

Billy Budd by Herman Melville and the Character Captain Vere

worthy. With the ideals of Enlightenment we are given a much more complex train of thought as one must also examine the good of a ...

Poet and Poetry of Jimmy Santiago Baca

this book. Baca runs the gamut of emotions in this text that is true, but what the reader finds within Healing Earthquakes is onl...

Literary Influence of the Romantic Period

self realization, self expression and self reliance were all an aspect of the awareness of the self within the natural world. The ...

Analyzing Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

a lonely young woman who spent much of her life on a solitary journey toward love and acceptance. It was not something she would ...

Romantic Period Artistic Beauty

ability to allow us the opportunity to interpret the rational through the concrete forms presented in art. Hegel believed that ...

Musical Differences Between Classical and Romantic Eras

melodies.5 The Classical era artists deviated from this example, and their music was considerably simpler in texture. New genres w...

Romantic Era Poetry of John Keats

sort of heroic quest, or the heroic person trapped and confined by societys dictates or the citys walls. This is evident in ...

American Literature's Romantic Movement

in the goodness of man and the mans natural state is in nature and is burdened by civilization (Campbell). The doctrine of sensibi...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and Romanticism

man demands to be let go, he notices something wild in the sailors eye and it intrigues the young man. As the sailor starts to tel...

Development of Romantic Ballet

chief choreographer of the Imperial Russian Ballet and managed to keep the form alive. In fact, the evolution of the romantic ball...

Romanticism and 'Ode to a Grecian Urn' by John Keats

romantic poetry it that the emphasis was always on emotions, rather than reason. William Wordsworth, a fellow Romantic, defined "g...

Poet Thomas Gray's Life and Poetry

In seven pages this paper examines 18th century poet Thomas Gray's life, his profound poetic influence in his lifetime and his swi...

Romanticism in King Lear by William Shakespeare

In five pages this paper discusses the Romantic qualities that are featured in King Lear, a hundred years before the genre was eve...

The Eighteenth Century Novel The Italian by Ann Radcliffe

writes that there was "something too extraordinary in the figure of this man, and too singular in his conduct to pass unnoticed by...

Classical, Neoclassical, and Romantic Music and Literature

In five pages this report contrasts and compares literary and musical distinctions as illustrated by Voltaire's Candide neoclassic...

Desdemona in William Shakespeare's Othello

In five pages this paper presents the argument that Desdemona's love for the Moorish Othello expands romantic love to include fide...

Romantic Literature and the Idealization of Children

In ten pages this paper examines how children were idealized in the romantic writings of Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens, Charlotte...

Romantic Love in the Plays of William Shakespeare

seemed to tap into the humans attraction to romantic love as an experience. There is little more powerful, and interestingly, Shak...

Society, Reality, and Poets of the Romantic Era

In twenty pages this paper discusses the poets and the poetry that characterized the Romantic Era of the end of the 18th century i...

War Portraits of Goya and David

In five pages the differing views of Goya and David on war and its nature are considered in the romantic May Third 1808 and the ne...

Science and 19th Century Romanticism

In thirteen pages this paper discusses the romantic aspects of science and poetry in a consideration of the works by poets includi...

Poe, Hawthorne, Irving and Romanticism Considering Romanticism in Literature By Examining Stories By Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving and Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Romantic literary tradition is exemplified by Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne. This paper examines ...