1. Romanticism: Mary Shelley and George G. Byron
Luis Miguel Toquero
Noemí Viñas
Carla Erica San Miguel

2. Outline Historical Approach Key Elements of Romanticism
Romantic Characteristics in Literature
Mary Shelley ( )
Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus
Frankenstein:Themes
Frankenstein’s Legacy in Movies
George Gordon Byron ( )
Byron´s Poems
Conclusion
Bibliography
Slideshare

3. I. Historical Approach
Cultural movement in art and literature in the 18th and 19th centuries
Rooted in German Sturm und Drag movement
Close relationships with French Revolution and its ideas.
Rejection of the previous Neoclassicism
Increase in reading public

4. II. Key Elements of Romanticism
Imagination
Nature
Symbolism and Myth
Individualism: The Romantic Hero
The everyday and the exotic

5. III. Romantic Characteristics in Literature
Symbolism and Myth
Nature is seen as beauty and truth.
Feelings and emotions take priority.
Sense of nostalgia from the past.
Characters are introduced as symbolic types.

6. IV. Mary Shelley (1797-1851) Mary Wollstonecraft + William Godwin
Relationship with Percy B. Shelley
Fled England
Moved to Switzerland (Byron’s villa)
Frankenstein 1818

7. V. Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus
started in 1816 in Byron’s villa
contest: who could write the spookiest story?
Finished in 1818
edited by Percy Shelley
Main representative of Gothic fiction

8. VI. Frankenstein:Themes
Dangerous Knowledge:
go beyond human limits
The unnecessary woman
a new creature without a woman
Monstrosity
grotesque and unnatural
Terror
setting and monster

9. VII. Frankenstein’s Legacy in Movies
I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion.

10. VIII. George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)
Sixth Baron Byron → Lord Byron
Travelled widely across Europe → Grand Tour
Castigated for his aristocratic excesses, huge debts, numerous love affairs
Befriending Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley
Died from a fever contracted while in Greece

11. IX. Poems Don Juan - “epic satire” - most famous Romantic hero
- unfinished
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
- long narrative poem
- young man’s reflections on travel in foreign lands

12. X. Conclusion Influential cultural movement 18th and 19th centuries
A rejection of the precepts ideas and conceptions
Imagination, nature, individualism and symbolism
Mary Shelley and Gothic fiction
George Gordon Byron as a representative Romantic poet of the period
When you hear the term Romantic nowadays, what do you think? Is it closer to Byron? has it anything to do with Mary Shelley’s gothic?

13. XI. Bibliography
British Romanticism. (n.d.). Retrieved March 18, 2016, from
Gregg Wright. (n.d.). Frankenstein - The Creation. Retrieved from
Lord Byron - Poet, Playwright. (n.d.). Retrieved March 18, 2016, from
Lord Byron (George Gordon) : The Poetry Foundation. (n.d.). Retrieved March 18, 2016, from
SparkNotes Editors. (2007). SparkNote on Frankenstein. Retrieved March 18, 2016, from
The Romantics. (n.d.). Retrieved March 18, 2016, from
Volume D: The Romantic Period | The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Ninth Edition: W. W. Norton StudySpace. (n.d.). Retrieved March 18, 2016, from

14. XII. Slideshare
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