英国文学史及选读 the romantic period.pptxVIP

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遭透的;可怕的  poverty. ;Ideologically思想体系上;意识形态上 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灵感;鼓舞人心的人(或事物) from the French Revolution and wrote beautiful poems and prose散文 . (William Blake, Byron, Shelley, Wordsworth, Lamb, etc.) ;B. Romanticism arose as a main literary trend which prevailed流行,盛行;普遍 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?]科尔里奇 and Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads抒情歌谣集 (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; 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有治疗功用的 power, nature as a source of subject and image, nature as a refuge庇护所，避难处 from the artificial constructs构思的结果,构想;概念 of c