Literature

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Festival Fringe

av sandra Dayan Pérez

Beloved

av David Johnson

Cain’s Jawbone - Copier

av Martine Grosso

Miguel de Cervantes

av Natanael Luffi

Literature and important writers

Sinister works classified as Gothic focusing on the supernatural and subconscious

Edgar Allan Poe

Mary Shelley

Matthew Gregory Lewis

Horace Walpole

Common life and language were used

Nature was used symbolically

Good poetry was spontaneous and original with the poet’s feelings in focus

Ballads and folk tales became important

Writers turned to history

Byron

Sir Walter Scott

National identity was nourished by the Napoleonic Wars

Childhood and nature were glorified

Coleridge

Wordsworth

A revolutionary and rebellious spirit