An overview slideshow that explores the characteristics and features of the Romantic movement - not probably much use without my teaching notes but you might find something nevertheless! I use this to teach A level students.

1. The Romantic Era

2. The EnlightenmentLate 17th – Late 18th Century Western civilization’s attempt to seek through reason a means to understand human problems without involving conflicting traditions The search for universal meaning and understanding.

3. Science & the relief of suffering

4. A Reaction to Rational Moralism 1

5. 2 A defence in the face of a changing world

6. A response to German Idealism 3

7. ‘Chaos is the law of nature; order the dream of man’ – John Adams

8. The creative mind brings coherence and meaning

9. George Eliot - ‘Middlemarch’

10. The role of the Artist

11. ‘I must create my own system or become enslaved to another man’s vision’ – William Blake

12. The tyranny of the system

13. Reason vs. Imagination

14. Communion with Nature

15. Prometheus – the Romantic hero

16. Originality vs. Craft

17. The Struggle of the Artist

18. Lord Byron

19. ‘We murder to dissect’The Tables Turned - Wordsworth

20. An adolescent movement?

21. What happens when a Romantic meets the ‘real world’?

22. Why did the Civil Rights movement ‘succeed’ while the Hippy movement was ultimately ineffectual?

23. What happens when a Romantic runs out of steam?

24. The salvation of memory?

25. What happens when a Romantic hero gets too old?

26. The hero revisions the world OR…

27. The world destroys the hero

28. The ‘tamed’ hero

29. The Romantic hero tends to be: A sensitive man of feeling A rebellious outsider A traveller / a Quester A visionary Seeks union with the infinite

30. The Romantic aesthetic embraced: Madness Criminality Abnormal behaviour Pornography Excess The irrationality of experience Anything which was considered off limits by the rational moralists of the Enlightenment.

31. Our Post-Romantic Inheritance

32. A divided life Social justice Equality Morality Reform Self definition Individualism

34. The Political Impotence of the Artist

35. Complicated Enrichment!