Write
an essay on the Romantic Novel with special reference to Jane Austen and Walter
Scott.
Answer:
The great
novelists of the Romantic period are Jane Austen and Scott, but before them
there appeared some novelists who came under the spell of medievalism and wrote
novels of ‘terror’ or the ‘Gothic novels’. The origin of this type of fiction
can be ascribed to Horace Walpole’s (1717-97) The Castle of Otranto (1746).
Here the story in set in medieval Italy and it includes a gigantic helmet that
can strike dead its victims, tyrants, supernatural intrusions, mysteries and
secrets. There were a number of imitators of such a type of novel during the
eighteenth century as well as in the Romantic period.
The most popular of the writers of the ‘terror’ or ‘Gothic’ novel during
the Romantic age was Mrs. Ann Radciffe (1764-1823), of whose five novels the
best-known are The Mysteries of Udolpho and the Italian. She
initiated the mechanism of the ‘terror’ tale as practiced by Horace Walpole and
his followers, but combined it with sentimental but effective description of
scenery. The Mysteries of Udolpho relates the story of an innocent and
sensitive girl who falls in the hands of a heartless villain named Montoni. He
keeps her in a grim and isolated castle full of mystery and terror. The novels
of Mrs. Radcliffe became very popular, and they influenced some of the great
writers like Byron and Shelley. Later they influenced the Bronte sisters whose
imagination was stimulated by these strange stories.........................................................................
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