The Romantic (Anti) Hero or
Outsider
Abbé Prevost (1697-1763) Manon Lescaut (1731;1753)
Goethe (1749-1832) The Sorrows of Young Werther
(1774)
Chateaubriand (1768-1848) Atala and René in The Genius of Christianity (1803)
Lord Byron (1788-1824) Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
(1812-18)
Weltschmerz: World-weariness
Mal de Siecle: Sickness of the
century
“Feeling is all!” Faust
“All are titans wrestling desperately with
a cruel world of men but torn more deeply by an unnamed inner taint that
galls terribly beyond the buffetings of the world.” Martin Day