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             The period, which held a marked reaction against Neoclassicism, was a movement in the late eighteenth to the nineteenth century known as Romanticism. Friedrich Schlegel, a German poet, describes Romanticism as "literature depicting emotional matter in an imaginative form." Imagination, emotion, and freedom are the focal points of romanticism, and the subjects usually focused on individualism; spontaneity; freedom from rules; solitary life rather than life in society; the beliefs that imagination is superior to reason and devotion to beauty; love of and worship of nature; and fascination with the past, especially the myths and mysticism of the middle ages.
             At a time when these movements were merging into each other, Jane Austen was deep into writing her novel
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