Romanticism

Definition
Reaction to 18th century classicism & rationalism
Viewed as revolutionary, emphasized change
Events now affect human thought & expression and society & politics.
Facts
Seen in painting, architecture, music, literature, philosophy
Spawns humanitarian movements against poverty, slavery, & industry evils
The strongholds of the Romantic Movement were England and Germany
Beginning in 1798, the year of the first edition of Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge and of the composition of Hymns to the Night by Novalis
Ending in 1832, the year which marked the death of Goethe.

Characteristics
The basis of language
Translations must provide more than equivalents
The translator must link togeather cultures
Translation must SERVE

Prose
Literate public eager for fiction
Jane Austin: more Neo-classic & comedy of manners, Pride and Prejudice
Bronte sisters: Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre
Charles Dickens: fence sitter
Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina and War & Peace.…