Dark Romanticism

Dark Romanticism

1. Origin

   • Comes from pessimistic nature of the subgenre's nature and the influcece it derives from the earlier Romanitc literary movements
   • Birthed in mid 19th century
   • Transcendetalism orginated in New England
   • Had influece in U.S expansion
   • Some dark authors felt that trans was to nice and they liked dark

2. Characteristics

   • Transdecdatlism influenced dark romatic authors
   • Dark Romatism are prone to sin
   • Belived in nature and spirtual forces
   • Trancendentalists advocate socia reform

3. Relation to Gothic Fiction

   • Popular in England
   • Inspired terror
   • More fiction; mystrey and tskeptism
   • feature outcasts, personal tormment, and nature of man will bring him salvation or destruction

4. Notable Authors

   • Edgar Allen Poe
     • Was a semial dark romatism author
     • Poe disliked transcendalism
     • Themes of death, physical signs, decompostion, premature burial, renamination of the dead, and mourning
   • Herman Melville
     • travel book
     • man's blind amibtion, cruelty, and defiance of God
       • Madness, mystery, and triumph
     • Can neither velive nor be comfortable in his belif
   • Nathaniel Hawthorne
     • dark romatic writer
     • Became troubled by the romatic movemnet
     • preoccopied with New England's religous past
       • was a puritan

5. Prominent Examples

   • Mobey Dick
   • Dream Land
   • The Raven

6. Legacy

   • Dimmer view on essential goodness of human nature
   • inspired horror film genres
   • graphic novels