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 English Literature(Romantic Period end of 18th-19th) Part 1 Old and Medieval English Period 古英语和中世纪英语时期 Part 2 The English Renaissance 英国文艺复兴时期 Part 3 The Period of the English Bourgeoisie Revolution 英国资产阶级革命时期 Part 4 The Eighteenth Century 18世纪与古典主义英国文学 Part5 Romanticism in England 英国浪漫主义 Part6 English Critical Realism(Victorian Period) 英国批判现实主义 Part7 Prose-Writers and Poets of the Mid and Late 19th Century 19世纪中后期的散文家和诗人 Part 8 Twentieth Century English Literature 20 世纪英国文学 English Literary of Early 19th Century Section I The Historical Background and the Literary Trends in Early 19th-Century England 1.The Historical Background: Economic,  Political and Ideological. The industrial revolution in England in the second half of the 18th century, and the French Revolution of 1789-94 and the ensuing Napoleonic Wars had their strong impact upon England’s economic, political and social scenes in the first few decades of the 19th century. The industrial revolution brought with it modern machinery and industry, industrial capitalism and the proletariats,conomic exploitation and political capitalism. Economic exploitation and political struggle between the industrial capitalists and the proletariat for the first time in English history became the major social conflict in that country. Not only the labouring people but even some feudal aristocrats and part of the bourgeoisie in England showed their sympathy toward the French Revolution of 1789 when it first overthrew France’s age-old monarchical and aristocratic tyranny, but as the radical Jacobins came onto power, the ruling classes in England became frightened and they joined with the reactionary forces on the Continent of Europe and waged war with France till the fall of Napoleon in 1815. In the meantime, following the workers’ disturbances in York, Nottingham and et.c, there were in the late 1790s the revolutionary risings among the navy in 1797 and the national rising in Irela