GOTHIC NOVEL
…in Europe… Mary Shelley Science fiction: Power of science: manipulation of nature 1818: Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus Creation of man; the “different”; the double.
New sources: Nordic and Celtic cultures; Middle Ages, ancient national folk poetry (T. Percy); The Works of Ossian (J. Macpherson) New features: originality and creativity; spontaneity; emphasis on individual genius; unknown and supernatural; free imagination; sensations; nature; exotic times and places.
1760: Enlightment in Europe: Voltaire, Diderot, Hume 1770s: Thomas Gainsborough: landscape paintings 1781: Kant writes the Critique of Pure Reason 1790: orchestral music: Hayden, Mozart, Beethoven
DRAMA
…in America… 1600-1700 First: prayers; hymns; diaries Soon after the Independence: adventures; puritan tales Benjamin Franklin: Poor Richard Almanac Irving Washington: The Mystery of Sleepy Hollow Fennymore Cooper: The Last of Mohicans
Oliviero Goldsmith (1728 – 1774 ) and Brinsley Sheridan (1715-1816) POETRY William Blake :Contemporary world and spiritual world, art as a creative vision, freedom and love for justice Poet and prophet ; sources: Divina Commedia by Dante; Works: Song of Innocence and Songs of Experience.