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Romanticism

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Romanticism
- The Eighteenth Century
- The Romantic Period (1798 - 1837)
- Romantic literature: characteristics / poets / authors

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What happened in 1776?

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What happened in 1789?

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Romanticism starts in 1798 because:
A
Napoleon became emperor of France
B
The Lyrical Ballads were Published
C
William Blake wrote Songs of Innocence
D
The USA became an independent nation

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Romanticism ends in 1837 because
A
Napoleon was finally defeated
B
The USA declares war on the UK
C
Queen Victoria is crowned
D
William Wordsworth dies

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What are the main topics of
Romantic literature?

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Poetry

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What are elements of poetry?
Write down two.

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Elements of poetry
1. Metre: regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables;
2. Alliteration:repetition of initial consonants;
3. Assonance: repetition of similar vowel sounds;
4. Rhyme: masculin and feminine; full and half rhyme;
5. Metaphor ans simile.

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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!
  • 7 central themes:

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The Romantic Period
  • 1. the beauty and value of nature
  • 2. idealization of the countryside and country people
  • 3. the (idealized) past
  • 4. distant and exotic cultures
  • 5. children (innocent, not yet corrupted by the world)
  • 6. the supernatural
  • 7. the Sublime: the use of language and description in a certain manner to evoke thoughts and emotions

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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

Slide 21 - Quiz

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

Slide 22 - Quiz

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

Slide 23 - Quiz