Romantic literature came into being at the end of18th century and reached its peak in the first half of19th century. It is one of the most important ideological trends in modern western literature.
2. In the vertical direction, romantic literature is the inheritance and development of humanism in the Renaissance, and it is also a powerful refutation of rigid French classicism.
3. In the horizontal direction, Romantic literature and subsequent realistic literature constitute two systems of modern western literature, which created a prosperous situation of western literature and had a far-reaching impact on later modernist and post-modernist literature.
4. Based on reality, express the pursuit of the ideal world with passionate language, colorful imagination and straightforward and exaggerated expression.
The characteristics of romantic literature;
1, first of all, emphasize subjective feelings and pay attention to expressing yourself. This is the most prominent and essential feature of romantic literature. Romantic writers all think that the rationality advocated by classicism is a constraint on literary and artistic creation, so they emphasize the freedom of creation.
2. Love and praise nature. Because of their aversion to capitalist material civilization and urban industrialization, romantic writers responded to Rousseau's slogan of "returning to nature" and sentimental literature's slogan of "returning to nature" in the18th century and devoted themselves to depicting natural scenery.
3. Pay attention to the medieval folk literature and put forward the slogan "Back to the Middle Ages". The word "romanticism" originally evolved from the romantic legends in the Middle Ages, and the romantic literature also started from collecting the folk literature in the Middle Ages.
4, the technique is exaggerated, the contrast is strong, and the plot is bizarre. This is the most distinctive feature of romantic literature in artistic form and expression.