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A 5 page paper which examines how the literary elements of nineteenth-century romanticism are displayed in the novel. No additional sources are used.
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strict adherence to social convention, reason, and mute emotion. However, by 1760, social and political revolution was in the air, and just as citizens were rebelling against tyrannical monarchs,
Western European authors and philosophers were also feeling defiant, tiring of the creative limits imposed by neoclassicism. Thus, the Romanticism movement was born, a genre in which the individual,
not his society, was stressed. Romantic literature is essentially comprised of such elements as liberation from political and social oppression, a sense of nostalgia for the historical past, a
Gothic-inspired fascination with the supernatural, a preoccupation with nature and natural landscapes, and passionate emotion. Sir Walter Scott was one of the leaders of Englands romantic movement, and his
works reflect a deep reverence for Scottish history. However, Scotts novels cannot be regarded as historically accurate because he exercised creative license to the extreme, with his dramatic recreations
of historical events, even devising situations that never occurred to heighten the emotional intensity of the works. One of Scotts most popular novels, Rob Roy (1817), could be described
as the pinnacle of English Romanticism. The novel features a real-life historical figure, an eighteenth-century Scottish outlaw named Robert MacGregor (who often used his mothers surname of Campbell), who
is presented by the protagonist Frank Osbaldistone as the quintessential romantic hero, in a series of narrative letters to his friend, Will Tresham. On a trip to Scotland, young
Osbaldistone becomes drawn into adventures of "Rob Roy," who was depicted by Scott not as the roguish criminal he was in actual fact, but rather, as a crusader for justice
and liberator of the oppressed. He is initially presented as a man of mythical strength, "as peaceable a gentleman as Mr. Campbell was, he was, moreover, as bold as
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