thought about in the introduction. Similarly, Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby tries to divorce himself from the past, rewrite who he is, and enjoy love with an upper-class married woman. His obsessive love battles not against religion but against the laws of old money and class. So it was in book after book on the British side of the pond, as with Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights or the salacious work of D. H. Lawrence. The original Romantics were intentionally reacting against the cold rationalism