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British Romanticism

British Romanticism. Introduction to the Social/Cultural Contexts. Influences behind British Romanticism. The Age of Enlightenment. The faith in the autonomy of reason as instrument The belief in mankind’s essentially similarity in all ages and origins

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British Romanticism

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  1. British Romanticism Introduction to the Social/Cultural Contexts

  2. Influences behind British Romanticism

  3. The Age of Enlightenment • The faith in the autonomy of reason as instrument • The belief in mankind’s essentially similarity in all ages and origins • The projected order governing nature, man, society and human perfectibility

  4. The Industrial Revolution • Agricultural, technological, and communication progresses through machines and systematic organization • Increase of population and urbanization • The rise of the middle/working classes, their rights versus feudalistic hierarchy

  5. German Romanticism • Time: 1770s-- • Figures: J. G. von Herder, Johann Wolfgan von Geothe, Fridrich Schiller • The enlightenment: the mind as recipient of the universe; German Romanticism: the mind as the creator of experience • Aiming to establish indigenous German literary tradition

  6. Influences behind British Romanticism

  7. Influences behind British Romanticism

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