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5. Romantic Era (c.

1780–1850s)

Features:

 Reaction against Enlightenment rationalism.

 Focus on emotion, imagination, nature, individualism, and the sublime.

 Interest in the mystical, supernatural, folklore, and national identity.

 Rise of the novel as a dominant literary form.

Important Events:

 French Revolution (1789) inspired political and literary thought.

 Industrial Revolution (late 18th–19th century).

 Growth of nationalism in Europe.

Major Writers & Works:

 William Wordsworth & Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Lyrical Ballads.

 Lord Byron – Don Juan.

 Percy Bysshe Shelley – Ode to the West Wind.

 John Keats – Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn.

 Mary Shelley – Frankenstein (birth of science fiction).

 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Faust.

 Victor Hugo – Les Misérables, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.

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