英国文学史the romantic period.pptVIP

The Romantic Period;Objectives;Contents;Background;Historical Background ; Economically Britain - the “workshop车间,工场,作坊 of the world” after the Industrial Revolution a. No country was strong enough to compete with England. b. The Industrial Revolution pushed the bourgeoisie中产阶级 to the dominant position in the country and became the ruling class. c. The working class lived in dreadful poverty. ;Ideologically a.The principle of Reason was giving way to an individualized, free, liberal, imaginative attitude towards life; b.A tendency to turn or escape from the confusing Here and Now.;Literarily A.The political struggle of the time was also reflected by the political writings at that time. Thomas Paine托马斯·潘恩 : The Rights of Man;Writers got inspirations from the French Revolution and wrote beautiful poems and prose . (William Blake, Byron, Shelley, Wordsworth, Lamb, etc.) ;B. Romanticism arose as a main literary trend which prevailed in England during the period of 1798-1832. ;*Romanticism;It prevailed in England during the period of 1798-1832, beginning with the publication of Coleridge?[k?ulrid?] and Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads (1798), ending with the death of Walter Scott (1832). ;*Romanticism; Politically, it was inspired by the revolutions in America and France and popular wars of independence in Poland, Spain, Greece and elsewhere. ;Emotionally, it expressed an extreme assertion of the self and the value of individual experience. ;*Characteristics of Romanticism;*Characteristics of Romanticism;a working definition of Romanticism (based on Random House Dictionary), ; Some key terms;Imagination The imagination, instead of “reason”, was elevated to a position as the supreme faculty of the mind, the Primary faculty for creating all art. ;Nature Nature itself is a work of art, a healing power, nature as a source of subject and image, nature as a refuge from the artificial constructs of civilization. ;