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Title: British Romanticism


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British Romanticism
  • Introduction to the Social/Cultural Contexts

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Influences behind British Romanticism
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The Age of Enlightenment
  • The faith in the autonomy of reason as instrument
  • The belief in mankinds essentially similarity in
    all ages and origins
  • The projected order governing nature, man,
    society and human perfectibility

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The Industrial Revolution
  • Agricultural, technological, and communication
    progresses through machines and systematic
    organization
  • Increase of population and urbanization
  • The rise of the middle/working classes, their
    rights versus feudalistic hierarchy

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German Romanticism
  • Time 1770s--
  • Figures J. G. von Herder, Johann Wolfgan von
    Geothe, Fridrich Schiller
  • The enlightenment the mind as recipient of the
    universe German Romanticism the mind as the
    creator of experience
  • Aiming to establish indigenous German literary
    tradition

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Influences behind British Romanticism
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