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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Influences behind British Romanticism
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