英语专业考研 刘炳善版 英国文学简史 The Romantic Period 、William Wordsworth 华兹华斯.pptVIP

The Romantic Period 1. The Historical Background 1.1 Domestic Turmoil 1.2 Global Revolutionary Atmosphere 2. Literary Trend 1.1 Domestic Turmoil The capitalists (the bourgeois class) The proletarian class Class conflicts aggravated to an unprecedented degree. (Luddites’ movement of 1811-1816) 1.2 Global Revolutionary Atmosphere England’s relationships in the last phase of the 18th century with Ireland, Scotland, and her colonies in North America has become critical. (the uprising in Ireland, the American War of Independence) The French Revolution Ideas of democracy, equality, and freedom were disseminated among the populace. Fall of the Bastille: 14 July 1789 The French Revolution 2. Literary Trend Romantic Movement. The literature of the Romantic Movement expressed a more or less negative attitude toward the existing social and political condition that came with the industrial revolution and the growing importance of the bourgeoisie. Cultural Background：thinkers Rousseau (1712-1778) 让-雅克·卢梭 -- reject the worship of nature -- civilized man should return to nature, to a primitive state of life Edmund Burke (1729-1797)埃德蒙·伯克  Reflection on the Revolution in France(1790) Thomas Paine (1737-1809) The Rights of Man(1971) -- justify the radical actions of the French people in revolution English Romanticism English Romanticism, as a historical phase of literature, is generally said to begin in 1798 with the publication of Lyrical Ballads 抒情歌谣集by Wordsworth and Coleridge, and ended in 1832 with Sir Walter Scott’s death and the passage of the first Reform Bill in the Parliament. Owing to the difference in political attitudes, they split into two schools: passive or active romanticists: 1. Passive romanticists，by way of protest against capitalist development，turned to the feudal past, or turned to nature for protection. They endeavors to beautify life, or to distract people from the things around him into his inner world, into thoug