17981832 The Romantic Era 17981832 Beginspublication of Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge 1798 Endscoronation of Queen Victoria 1832 Move from agricultural to industrial society ID: 263593
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The Romantic Era
1798-1832Slide2
The Romantic Era 1798-1832
Begins—publication
of
Lyrical Ballads
by Wordsworth and Coleridge, 1798Ends—coronation of Queen Victoria, 1832Move from agricultural to industrial societyFollows the Age of Reason, rejection of and rebellion from their ideasTwo generations of poets:Wordsworth, Coleridge, and BlakeShelley, Keats, and ByronSlide3
Revolutions
The American Revolution (1776)
Loss of money and prestige for Britain
The French Revolution (1789)
Noble ideas: liberty, equality, and fraternityBrutal reality: executions of nobility and those who disagreed with current governmentEnglish aristocracy feared similar uprisingNapoleon took military charge then became Emperor—traded king for an emperorEngland began a series of wars against Napoleon 1803 Battle of Trafalgar
1815 Battle of Waterloo)Slide4
The Industrial Revolution
Shift from hand craft to machined goods
Rich becoming richer, poor becoming poorer
Laissez faire
—a “hands off” approach to economics from gov’tBrutal child laborSlide5
Characteristics
Imagination over reason
Feeling over “realism”
Art is personal, emotional, and simple in language instead of public, witty, and complex.
Democratic idea—art is for all peopleExotic locales—the past or imaginative worlds instead of the ugly industrial world around themSlide6
Characteristics
Individual liberties and feelings
Nature viewed as transforming and echoing human nature; we learn from nature
Retreats into nature provide the soul with a refreshing, a renewal, providing the mind with the peaceful environment in which to think more clearly.Slide7
Characteristics
Imaginative worlds
“Willing suspicion of disbelief”—accept the imaginative world of the artist
Verisimilitude: The sense that what one reads is "real," or at least realistic and believable.
For instance, the reader possesses a sense of verisimilitude when reading a story in which a character cuts his finger, and the finger bleeds. If the character's cut finger had produced sparks of fire rather than blood, the story would not possess verisimilitude. Note that even fantasy novels and science fiction stories that discuss impossible events can have verisimilitude if the reader is able to read them with suspended disbelief. Slide8
The Gothic
Gloomy castles, monsters, ghosts
The surreal or dream-like is explored
“…Ability to let readers…share their fears about the age’s suffering, injustice, and other unseen ‘evils’.”Slide9
“What is a poet?”
“He is a man speaking to men.”
An ordinary person speaking to ordinary people—a democratic ideal
For some, an “inspired revealer and teacher,” for others, a “physician” to all humanity that “pours out a balm upon the world”
“Prophet, priest and king”Outsider commenting on societySlide10
Byron and the “bad boy”
Devastatingly attractive but fatally flawed
Passionate
Outsider
Questioning, searching, but uncompromisingBrooding on past sinRash rebels who reacted against an overly complex societySlide11
Wreck of technologySlide12
"If you're not worried
about the incursion of technology into
the human self,
you're mad." Slide13
“
Ozymandias
”
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
I met a traveller
from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and
trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is
Ozymandias
, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away".