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英美浪漫主义比较 British Romanticism American Romanticism Time 1798—1832 Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads; death of Walt Scotts and the passage of the Reform Bill in the Parliament 1782—1861 Washington Irving’s The Sketch Book; Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass ? Historically Background: Economically ? Politically 1.?The French Revolution 2.?The English Industrial Revolution Westward expansion 1.agricultural society had been replaced by a modern industrialization one 2.economic exploitation of the workers by the capitalists Booming economy: experiencing industrial transformation 1.Rousseau’s new idea about Nature, society, education 2.radicals sympathized the French Revolution, claiming Liberty, Equality, Fraternity Two-party system: freedom and democracy Definition Revolt of the English imagination against of the neo-classical reason Revolt against classicism Theme Bitterness, melancholy A strong sense of optimism and a mood of “feeling good” of the whole country Contents 1.?spontaneous outflow of power feelings 2.?imagination 3.?nature 4.?escape from society and return to nature 1.?free expression_r of emotions and psychic states of the charter 2.?emphasis on imaginative qualities: picturesque, exotic, sensuous, the supernatural 3.?the wildness and American Puritanism; more moralizing 4.?escape from society and return to nature Characteristics 1.?nature images, dream-like atmosphere, music beauty, 2.?Gothic elements 1.?derivative 2.?Puritanism: moralizing 3.?Calvinistic view of original sin Literary Movement ? Transcendentalism Writers William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George G. Byron, P. B. Shelley, John Keats Washington Irving, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville