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A Survey of English Literature
Romanticism
Part 1

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Romanticism
- The Eighteenth Century
- The Romantic Period (1798 - 1830)
- Romantic literature: characteristics / poets / authors

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What are the main topics of
Romantic literature?

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The Eighteenth Century
The Neo-Classical Period / The Age of Reason
  • Neo-Classical: classical influence > absolute authority
  • Result: "good art" >> imitation of the classics

  • Reason: rational and balanced judgement, based on knowledge, no personal emotions
  • Result: "good art" > strict rules regarding form and content

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The Eighteenth Century
  • Britain: becomes the world's leading economic power

  • Wealth based on colonies and trade
  • Tea, silks and spices (India)
  • Atlantic "Triangular Trade"
  • Industrial Revolution (introduction of steam engine)

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Triangular trade
  • Slaves
  • Plantation crops (sugar, cotton and tobacco)
  • Manufactured goods

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The Nineteenth Century
  • Late 18th/early 19th century: great changes!

  • Society - industrial cities; poverty among workers
  • Nature - large-scale environmental pollution
  • Great changes outside Britain:

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The Nineteenth Century
  • 1776 Declaration of Indepence
  • French Revolution (1789)
  • Inspiration for many British intellectuals (liberty, equality, fraternity)
  • Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815)
  • Gave rise to great patriotism
  • Trafalgar: French navy defeated - Lord Nelson
  • Waterloo: Napoleon defeated - Duke of Wellington

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The Romantic Period
  • 1798 - 1830

  • Romantic - 
  • from 'romance' > story of adventure and imagination
  • anti (neo-)classical, anti rationalist!
  • six central themes:

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The Romantic Period
  • the beauty and value of nature
  • idealization of the countryside and country people
  • the (idealized) past
  • distant and exotic cultures
  • children (innocent, not yet corrupted by the world)
  • the supernatural

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Romantic literature
Poetry
  • Most of it lyrical (expressing poet's feelings and emotions)
  • Some of it narrative (art ballads > imitations of medieval ballads)
Drama
  • A re-evaluation of Shakespeare
Prose 
  • The historical novel becomes very popular

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What are the main topics of
Romantic literature?

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Which answer best defines the Triangular Trade?
A
slaves - goods - crops
B
crops - slaves - goods
C
slaves - crops - goods
D
crops - goods - slaves

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In which year did the American colonies declare their indepence?
A
1789
B
1733
C
1767
D
1776

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Who defeated the French army at Trafalgar?
A
Duke of Wellington
B
Lord Nelson
C
Lord Tennyson
D
Duke of Edinburgh

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Next lesson
Introduction to Romantic poets + novelists
Examples of Romantic literature
Assignments

Bring reader&workbook 3 + your notebook!

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