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Romanticism 第一页，共34页。 Contents General introduction Historical and social backgroundRomanticism in musicRomanticism in visual artsRomanticism in literatureRomanticism and science Characteristics of romanticismDistinctions between romanticism and Neoclassicism 第二页，共34页。 General introduction Romanticism is a movement that marked a partial reaction in literature ,philosophy ,art, religion , and politics from neoclassicism of the preceding period . For romantics, the feeling ,institutions and emotions were more important than reason and common sense. It started around the year of 1780 and end around the year of 1830. The movement originated in Germany and quickly spread to England, France, and other countries. It reached to America around the year of 1820.第三页，共34页。 Romanticism values the particular insight, It rejects any sense of rational limits to what the human imagination might know. As a movement, romanticism involved a revolt against convention and authority and a search for freedom in personal, political, and artistic life. It stressed individualism, affirmed the value of the common people.第四页，共34页。 Historical and social backgroundThe French Revolution and Industrial Revolution played a huge role in influencing Romanticism.As the French Revolution changed the lives of virtually everyone in the nation and even continent because of its drastic and immediate shift in social reformation, it greatly influenced many writers at the time.? Instead of searching for rules governing nature and human beings, the romantics searched for a direct communication with nature and treated humans as unique individuals not subject to old rules. 第五页，共34页。 The French Revolution第六页，共34页。 The Industrial Revolution brought great changes to the society. The new technologies and new economic ideas occurred at that time. All of these exert great influence on Romanticism.第七页，共34页。 The Industrial Revolution 第八页，共34页。 The Spinning Jenny1760sSteam Engine: James Watt: 1777, First