The Romantic period (1790-1830) (1 Jan 1790 Jahr – 1 Jan 1830 Jahr)

Beschreibung:

Many writers in the Romsntic period emphasized feeling and imagination and looked toward nature for insight into the divine.

The Romantic period also featured significant innovations in the novel form like the Gothic fiction (Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe)

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: (née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818).

Edgar Allan Poe: (January 19, 1809 to October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, critic and editor best known for evocative short stories and poems that captured the imagination and interest of readers around the world. His imaginative storytelling and tales of mystery and horror gave birth to the modern detective story. Many of Poe’s works, including “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Fall of the House of Usher,” became literary classics. Some aspects of Poe’s life, like his literature, is shrouded in mystery, and the lines between fact and fiction have been blurred substantially since his death.