Romanticism promoted country life, connecting the countryside with physical and moral purity, as well as a means of escapism. ... The view of superior country life was an idea that was also largely promoted by Rousseau, who advocated the notion of the noble savage. ... Wordsworth, in his autobiographical The Prelude (1805), promotes the Romantic ideology when he describes his own childhood: Fair seed-time had my soul, and I grew up Foster'd alike by beauty and by fear; Much favor'd in my birth-place, and no less In that beloved Vale to which, erelong, I was transplanted. ... (Words...

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Mary Shelley began to write Frankenstein in the summer of 1816 and was heavily influenced by the social changes that were making their way across Europe. Shelley was obviously influenced by the idea of Romanticism and the importance of imagination and creativity and people such as her father William...

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