《英国文学》课程PPT教学课件（English Literature）Part VII 1 Romanticism

Contents 1.The definition ll.The background lll.The basic aims IV.The emphases V.The elements of Romanticism VI.Romanticism:A Poetic Age

Contents ❖ I. The definition ❖ II. The background ❖ III. The basic aims ❖ IV. The emphases ❖ V. The elements of Romanticism ❖ VI. Romanticism: A Poetic Age

l.Definition a complex artistic,literary,and intellectual movement originated in the second half of the 18th century in Western Europe gained strength during the Industrial Revolution

I. Definition ❖ a complex artistic, literary, and intellectual movement ❖ originated in the second half of the 18th century in Western Europe ❖ gained strength during the Industrial Revolution

a philosophical revolt against rationalism a literary revolt against classicism

❖ a philosophical revolt against rationalism ❖ a literary revolt against classicism

beginning Wordsworth first started in Germany Coleridge Lyrical Ballads In England:begun in 1798 with Other Poems the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads

beginning ❖ first started in Germany ❖ In England: begun in 1798 with the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads

The German poet Friedrich Schlegel given credit for first using the term romantic to describe literature defined it as "literature depicting emotional matter in an imaginative form

❖ The German poet Friedrich Schlegel  given credit for first using the term romantic to describe literature  defined it as “literature depicting emotional matter in an imaginative form

Ending *in 1832 with Sir Walter Scott's death the passage of the first Reform Bill in the Parliament

Ending ❖ in 1832 with Sir Walter Scott’s death the passage of the first Reform Bill in the Parliament

ll.The background a.Historically,it was provoked by sthe French Revolution the English Industrial Revolution

II. The background ❖ a. Historically, it was provoked by the French Revolution the English Industrial Revolution

b.Culturally,the publication of French philosopher Rousseau's books provided necessary guiding principles for the French Revolution which aroused great sympathy and enthusiasm in England

❖ b. Culturally, the publication of French philosopher Rousseau’s books provided necessary guiding principles for the French Revolution which aroused great sympathy and enthusiasm in England

>c.England experienced profound economic and social changes: >the enclosure movement and the agricultural mechanization; >the capitalist class grasped the political power and came to dominate the English society

➢ c. England experienced profound economic and social changes: ➢the enclosure movement and the agricultural mechanization; ➢the capitalist class grasped the political power and came to dominate the English society

Ill.The basic aims a return to nature belief in the goodness of humanity the rediscovery of <the artist as a supremely individual creator

III. The basic aims ❖ a return to nature belief in the goodness of humanity ❖ the rediscovery of the artist as a supremely individual creator