| Romanticism and Christianity has been the important issue in the research of the Western literature and intellectual history. The generation, development and evolution of romantic tradition from Late 18th to early 19th century was the result of the Christian spirit's revival and spread throughout Europe.Romantic trends have been affected greatly by Western Christian culture, and it had a varied performance in the various fields and aspects of European social and culture. As a kind of current thought and ideology which had played an important role in Western cultural history, Its generation and development can't split off from the tradition of Western religious culture.In the Romantic period, Christianity has got unprecedented development opportunities. However, in the pre-romantic period, it had suffered a heavy blow from the field of ideas and social life, which had its inevitability and objectivity.This paper is based on the text, which tries to trace the ideological and cultural roots of the revival of Christianity in the Romantic period. It made a detailed analysis about the performance of the Christianity in the Romantic Literature, and thinking about the reason that Christianity had a strong impact on the Romantic literature and its significance.This paper is divided into three chapters:The first chapter is a review of the evolution and development of the Christianity in the social transformation of pre-romantic period, Renaissance, Reformation, enlightenment etc.; and a description of the revival of Christian Church and the Christian spirit in the Romantic period; the second chapter displays the Christian Revival's inheritance of the old religious traditions and its new developing features by analyzing the Christian spirit shown in the representative writers' works in Western European countries; the third chapter makes reflections on the phenomenon described in the first two chapters. It discusses the reason that Christianity had a far-reaching impact on the Romantic literature trends and the value and significance of these works with Christian characteristics during the Romantic period. |
