What is romantic literature in the history of foreign literature?

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. Vertically, romantic literature is the inheritance and development of humanism in Renaissance, and it is also a powerful backwash to rigid French classicism. Horizontally, romantic literature and subsequent realism * * * constitute two systems of modern western literature, which brought the prosperity of western literature in the19th century and had a far-reaching impact on later modernism and post-modernism literature.

Representative writers and works:

Hugo-France-Notre Dame de Paris and Les Miserables

Shelley, England, ode to the west wind and Prometheus released.

Heine-Germany-Germany, a winter fairy tale

Dumas-France-Monte Cristo

Byron-England-Childe Harold's Travels and Don Juan

Stevenson-Scotland-kidnapping and Treasure Island

Features: Romantic literature is politically opposed to the feudal system, no longer deliberately highlighting human rationality, but through magnificent imagination and exaggeration, it deeply explores people's emotional world and shapes distinctive characters. In the creative style, it is characterized by imaginative conception and ups and downs.