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Chapter 3: The Romantic PeriodGeneral Introduction考核要求:1.识记：浪漫主义时期的界定和历史文化背景2.领会：浪漫主义思潮的意义与影响以及浪漫主义文学创作的基本主张及对后世文学的影响。3.应用：名词解释浪漫主义以及浪漫主义时期文学特点的分析考点串讲:1. Historical background:Internationally,①The French Revolutions: --the great event, arouse great sympathy and enthusiasm in the English liberals and Conservatives, they all declared Liberty, Equality and Fraternity②Rousseau--the great French Philosopher. Influence by Rousseau, the writers began to explore the new ideas about Nature, Society and EducationThese paved the way for the development of Romanticism in the literature internationally Nationally,①Industrial revolution (Industrialization, Further capitalization and Urbanization)②The survival of fittest (the sharper contradiction between capitalists and the labors) These are the national basis of the production of Romanticism2. Literature background:The early works with Romantic tendency are following:Thomas Paine’s The Declaration of Rights of Man claiming Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. Edmund Burke published his Reflections on the Revolution in France.William Godwin’s Inquiry Concerning Political Justice. Against the injustice, economic system and the oppression of the poor.Mary Wollstonecraft urged the equal rights for women in her A Vindication(辩护) of the Right of Woman.3. The definition, duration and characteristics of the Romanticism:①The definition:The Romantic Movement, which associated with vitality, powerful emotion and dreamlike ideas, is simply the expression of life as seen by the imagination rather than by prosaic common sense. The contrast between Romanticism and Neoclassicism:Romanticism: associated with vitality, powerful emotion and dreamlike ideasNeoclassicism: associated with order, common sense and controlled reason②Duration:Beginning time: 1798 marked by the publication of Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge Ending time: 1832 marked by the death of Scott and the passage of the first Reform Bill【例题】Which of the following poems is a