Characteristics of Romanticism

The Fourteen Characteristics of Romanticism
1. Medievalism - looking on the past to a simpler lifestyle (the good ole days).
''Written in the Close of Spring'' by Charlotte Smith
2. Orientalism - (exotic locales) places that everyday people would not venture.
Mystery - emotional stimulus.
3. Primitivism - belief that man was born inherently good. (Noble Savage - writing
by people of primitive cultures - Africa, Native American) Society makes them bad.
4. Progress - Romantics were not against progress but feared the effects on
society. Man could create a better world without materia…