The Romantic Period: 1798

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The Romantic Period 17981832 Introduction to
the Literary Period
Feature Menu
Interactive Time Line Milestone The American
Revolution Milestone The French Revolution
Milestone The Era of Napoleon Milestone The
Industrial Revolution Milestone The Romantic
Movement What Have You Learned?
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The Romantic Period 17981832
Choose a link on the time line to go to a
milestone.
17761783 American Revolution
17991815 Era of Napoleon
17891799 French Revolution
1850
1800
1750
late 1700s Industrial Revolution
late 1700searly 1800s Romantic Movement
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The American Revolution
17761783 American Colonies revolt, defeat
Britain, gain independence
How American Revolution affected Britain

• Big psychological blow

• Severe economic problemswar debts, no more
  revenue from Colonies

• Government by personal power of king comes to an
  end

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The French Revolution
1789 storming of the Bastille
1792 September massacre
1793 Louis XVI beheaded
The French Revolution
at first inspired liberals in England, scared
conservatives
later turned violent, ended in dictatorship of
Napoleon Bonaparte
eventually led to conservative clamp-down in
England
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The Era of Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparteruthless, tyrannical dictator
of France tried to take over Europe
18031815
England at war with France
1815, Waterloo, Belgium
England and allies send Napoleons army back to
France
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The Industrial Revolution
Beginning in England

• Production moves from homes to factories

• Factories located in cities

• Communal land taken over by rich owners

• People move to cities looking for work

• City populations swell

• Living conditions very poor

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The Industrial Revolution
Policy of Laissez Faire

• laissez fairelet (people) do (as they please)

• let business owners operate without government
  interference

The Result

• Rich grew richer while poor suffered more

• Children forced to do hard labor

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The Romantic Movement
The Romantics

• were dedicated to social change

• believed in individual liberty

• valued imagination

• thought of nature as transformative

• focused on personal experience and emotions

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The Romantic Movement
RomanticismThree Useful Meanings
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The Romantic Movement
Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems

• collaboration of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and
  William Wordsworth

• published 1798

A new kind of poetry

• commonplace subjects simple language

• immediacy, spontaneity, emotion, self-revelation

• celebrates bond between nature and the human mind

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The Romantic Movement
Some Romantic poets
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The Romantic Movement
The Lure of the Gothic
Horror tales and Gothic architecture were popular
in the Romantic period.
Strawberry Hill

• medieval-style, rustic, eerie castle

• built by Horace Walpole

The Castle of Otranto

• horror tale, first Gothic novel

• by Horace Walpole, 1764

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What Have You Learned?
Choose the correct answer to each question.
1. Which of the following was NOT a result of the
Industrial Revolution? a. pay raises b. poverty
c. crowded cities 2. Which of the following was
NOT important to the Romantics? a. nature b.
order c. social change 3. Which of the following
was NOT a Romantic poet? a. Wordsworth b. Keats
c. Pope
a. pay raises
b. order
c. Pope
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Viewing the Art
Industrialization
The train became increasingly important during
the 1800s. In this painting, the landscape, the
train, and the city blend together in seeming
harmony.
Activity Why might interest in nature increase
during a period of industrialization and
urbanization?
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