Define
Romanticism
The
romanticism is a movement in art and literature in the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries in revolt against the Neoclassicism in the precious
centuries. The German poet Friedrich
Schegel, he used the term romantic to describe literature as: “Literature depicting emotional matter in an
imaginative form.”. Fancy, feeling and liberty are positively the focal
points of romanticism includes subjectivity and an emphasis on individualism;
spontaneity; freedom from rules; solitary life rather than life in society;
belief that imagination is superior than devotion to beauty, and love of nature.
About Mary Shelley
Mary
Shelley was born in London on August 30th, 1797. Her parents were
William Godwin a philosopher and a political writer, and Mary Wollstonecraft a
famed Feminist. Shelley never knew her mother because she died after her birth.
In 1814, Mary creates a loving relationship with Percy Bysshe Shelley, a poet.
They suffered financial situations and faced the loss of their first child in
1815 but some time before Mary brought to the world a baby girl who lived for
few days. Mary Shelley is the author of the famous novel “Frankenstein”. The novel was a reflection of Mary’s own sense
of isolation and loneliness. On February 1, 1851, at the age of 54, Mary
Shelley died in sleep as a result of a brain tumor. She was living in London at
the time of her death.
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