英国文学史及选读课件 8 The Romantic Period

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The Romantic Period(1798-1832) 1798-1832 1798

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Objectives1. To have the basic knowledge about the brief history of the Romantic Period

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ContentsBackgroundWilliam Wordsworth:

“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud I Cloud”Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice

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Background

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Historical BackgroundPoliticallyworkers’ a. workers movement b. French Revolution (1789)watchwords口号;标语: “liberty, equality liberty, and fraternity友爱 ”

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Economicallyworld” Britain - the “workshop车间,工场,作坊 of the world workshop after the Industrial Revolutiona. 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.

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Ideologically思想体系上;意识形态上 a.The principle of Reason was givingway to an individualized, free, liberal, imaginative attitude life; towards life; b.A tendency to turn or escape from Now. the confusing Here and Now.

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Literarily A.The political struggle of thetime was also reflected by the political writings at that time. a. Thomas Paine托马斯·潘恩 : The Rights of

Man

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b. 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, etc.) Wordsworth, Lamb, etc.)

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B. Romanticism arose as a main literary trend which prevailed流行,盛行;普遍 in 1798England during the period of 1798-1832.

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*RomanticismA movement that flourished in literature, philosophy, music, and art in western culture during the first half of the 19th century, beginning as a revolt反叛,起义 Against classicism.

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*RomanticismIt prevailed in England during the 1798period of 1798-1832, beginning with the publication of Coleridge ['k ulrid ]科尔里奇 and Wordsworth’s Wordsworth s Lyrical Ballads抒情歌谣集 (1798), ending with the death of Walter Scott (1832).

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*RomanticismThere have been many varieties of Romanticism in many different times and places.

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*RomanticismPolitically, it was inspired by the revolutions in America and France and popular wars of independence in Poland, Spain, Greece and elsewhere.

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*RomanticismEmotionally, it expressed an extreme assertion of the self and the value of individual experience.

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*Characteristics of Romanticisma. It is against the strict order and reason of Neoclassicism of the previous centuries.

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