Romanticism Essays -- Romantic Period Essays

romanceIn spite of its representation of potentially roguish and satanicpowers, its historical and geographic location and its satire on utmost(prenominal) Calvinism, James Hoggs Private Memoirs and Confessions of aJustified Sinner proves to be a novel that a dramatises a crisis ofidentity, a theme which is very a lot a Romantic attention. Discuss.Examination of Romantic texts provides us with only a limited and muchdebated degree of commonality. However despite the disparity of romanticism (or Romanticisms) as a movement it would be true to saythat a prevalent aspect of Romantic literature that unites manydifferent forms of the movement, is a concern with the divided self.As the empirical Rationalism of the eighteenth cytosine was partiallysubverted by the subjective metaphysical reflection in the ordinalartists tended to examine wider issues from an introspective startingpoint. The idea of the divided self became a motif from BlakesAlbion to Byrons Manfred to Keats musings on the disassociatednature of the Poetic Self. Some writers personified this division indistinct physical manifestations, usually a hero and his inversedoppelganger. virtually famously in Mary Shelleys Frankenstein, thevarious selves in De Quinceys Confessions of an English Opium tributaryand in the complex mirroring of major characters in James Hoggsambiguous chef-doeuvre Private Memoirs and Confessions of a JustifiedSinner.Although critics (as Andrea Henderson in Romantic Identities) havedebated the fulfilment that Romanticism dramatises divisive crises withthe psychological self , the vast majority of pen on the subjectagrees that crisis of identity is certainly a Romantic concern.Hugo Donelley draws attention to the Modernis... ... Doubleness of Hoggs Confessionsand the Tradition, Studies in Scottish literary productions, Vol. 18, pp.59-74.Punter, D. The dialectic of persecution in The Literature of TerrorVolume I, 1996, Longman Group (David Punter), London and New York.Simps on, L. James Hogg, a Critical Study, 1962, Oliver and Boyd,Edinburgh.Wittig, Kurt. The Scottish Tradition in Literature, 1958, Oliver andBoyd, Edinburgh.Wu, Duncan. Introduction in Romanticism An AnthologyWEBSITES.http//prometheus.cc.emory.edu/panels/4C/R.Incorvati.htmlIncorvati, R. Dialogue and Marginality in James Hoggs Confessions ofa Justified Sinner. Prometheus Unplugged Website.---------------------------------------------------------------------1 Although Hogg was composing in a pre-Freudian era the essentials of his psychodynamic theory were as pertinent in 1834 as they were in 1934.