The Romantic Period
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The Romantic Period
French Revolution (1789) – 1832Pages 620-638
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Historical Transition
Period
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Charles Dickens / from A Tale of Two Cities
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Turbulent Times Caused by the Haves and Have Nots
• American Revolution / French Revolution• Overthrow of the Haves• Conservatives in England became more rigid– Repressive measures:• Outlawed collective bargaining• Imprisoned suspected agitators
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Industrial Revolution
• Goods made by hand verses mass production• Communal land owned by many farmers was
taken over by wealthy individuals– Turned into private parks for hunting/recreation
• Large numbers of landless people, go to the cities to find work
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Laissez Faire Economic Policy• “Let the people do as they pleased” / Hands
off Policy
• Economic forces should be allowed to operate freely without government interference
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Laissez Faire Economic Policy• Result? – rich grew richer and the poor
suffered even more
• Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations – basis for capitalism / justification to ignore the suffering of millions
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Attitude of the Day• Most members of the upper class believed
that they deserved their worldly success• And, the poor must be innately evil,
deserving of the hunger and appalling conditions that they endured
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Romantic Poets
• Frustrated by England’s resistance to political and social change
• Responded through public poetry emphasizing emotion and imagination rather than bottom line reason
• Wrote poems about ordinary people– Truths about the heart– NATURE
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William Blake
• He cried out against the social problems he saw
• He warned against the growing divisions between the classes, working conditions, and child labor
• “No one should go hungry in a land as green and wealthy as England.”
• Most thought he was crazy.
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Romanticism1798-1832
• Pages 620-621, 622• What can you infer about the Romantic
artists?
• The divine arts of imagination: imagination, the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.– ~William Blake
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