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Romanticism in England

Romanticism in England. Its Growth and Characteristics. Romanticism: a Reaction Against. The Industrial Revolution The Age of Revolution Neoclassicism. 1760-1830: The Industrial Revolution. The Crystal Palace. Effects of the Industrial Revolution. Child Labor/Disease/poor conditions.

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Romanticism in England

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  1. Romanticism in England Its Growth and Characteristics

  2. Romanticism: a Reaction Against • The Industrial Revolution • The Age of Revolution • Neoclassicism

  3. 1760-1830: The Industrial Revolution

  4. The Crystal Palace

  5. Effects of the Industrial Revolution

  6. Child Labor/Disease/poor conditions

  7. Political turmoil The American Revolution (1783) The French Revolution (1789) Napoleonic Wars (1790-1815)

  8. neoclassicism

  9. Characteristics of neoclassicism • Emphasis on rationality, logic, and scientific observation of the outer world: passion should be controlled; • Social needs are more important than individual needs; valued stability, harmony, and a social hierarchy; • Believed that nature could be controlled by humans; • Truth and order can be found through scientific observation;

  10. Characteristics of Romanticism • Romanticism emphasized imagination • Romantics believed that imagination helped people not only perceive reality, but also create it while Neoclassical thought emphasized reason over imagination;

  11. Characteristics of Romanticism Romantics emphasized nature • Perceived nature as an organic whole as opposed to neoclassicists who saw nature as a mechanism (God as clock-maker); • Saw a connection between nature and life, a means of using nature to understand life. John Constable

  12. Characteristics of Romanticism • Romantics emphasized emotion over reason • Intuition, instincts and feelings are more important than logical reasoning. • The source of art is the individual artist rather than nature (making art’s purpose mimetic rather than revelatory). • This leads to an emotional, intuitive understanding of the world.

  13. Characteristics of Romanticism Romantics emphasized individualism and rebellion over social stability; Emphasis on introspection, psychology, melancholy and sadness.

  14. Characteristics of Romanticism A belief in the power of imagination and an interest in the supernatural and exotic

  15. Works Cited • http://mural.uv.es/horpla/wordsworth.html • http://www.flatrock.org.nz/topics/history/march_of_the_machine.htm

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