Romanticismo

LISA, SERENA, GIORGIA, SOFIA

CLASSE 5B

From the eighteenth century To the nineteenth century

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the romantic age

BRITAIN AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND THE NAPOLEONIC WARS

THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

We can divide the Romantic Age in two contexts : historical and literary.Regarding to historical context we can resume it in three important events:

• BRITAIN AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

• THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND THE NAPOLEONIC WARS
• THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

SERENA

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

WOMEN

SOCIAL REFORMS AND POETRY

THE SOCIAL CLASSES AND THE ACTS OF THIS PERIOD

Romanticism reflected social changes by emphasizing individual expression. Romantic artist reclaimed the beauty of natural world in a period of rapid industrialization and urbanization.

SOFIA

SOCIAL BACKGROUND

TURNER

AUSTEN

KEATS

Is a STAR really synonymous with STEADINESS ?

ART AND POETRYLISA

lyrical ballads

language

POETICS

William Wordsworth was born in 1770 in Scotland, he lost both his parents and stayed with his brothers.He studied at a College in Cambridge and graduated in 1791. He travelled in London, to Wales and to France. Then he met Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Their collaboration was fundamental to the development of English romanticism, in fact, the two poets anonymously published a collection of poems entitled Lyrical Ballads in 1798, the year in which the romantic movement began in England. He died in 1850 .

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

Beginning in Great Britain, the Industrial Revolution spread to continental Europe and the United States, from around 1760 to about 1820–1840. This transition included going from hand production methods to machines; new chemical manufacturing and iron production processes; the increasing use of water power and steam power; the development of machine tools; and the rise of the mechanised factory system.

• GEORGE III -> "The king's friends"
• AMERICAN INDIPENDENCE -> BOSTON MASSACRE AND THE BOSTON TEA PARTY
• THE AMERICAN DECLARATION OF INDIPENDENCE -> Treaty of Versailles in 1783

BRITAIN AND AMERICAN REVOLUTION

• THE REIGN OF TERROR -> BRITAIN VS FRANCE
• NAPOLEONE BONAPARTE 1804 -> THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR 1805
• THE NAPOLEONIC WARS 1812
• THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA 1815 -> BATTLE OF WATERLOO

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND THE NAPOLEONIC WARS

LYRICAL BALLADS

Lyrical ballads is a collection of poem published jointly and anonymously by Wordsworth and Coleridge in 1798. This was to become one of the most famous documents of literary criticism in English literature.The Lyrical Ballad’s main theme is the returning to the state of nature, in which man leads a pure and innocent existence, in contrast to the human existence corrupted by civilization.

• LYRICAL BALLADS’ EDITIONS
• PREFACE

MOST FAMOUS AUTHORS AND RELATED WORKS

JANE AUSTEN (1775-1816)

Her most famous works are:

• Sense and Sensibility, 1811
• Pride and Prejudice, 1813
• Emma , 1815

With irony and wit she illustrates the characters who populate the English countryside and who influence his heroines' dream of marital happiness. Women are the fundamental fulcrum of every novel, making Jane Austen "one of the first writers to dedicate her entire work to the analysis of the female universe".

JOHN KEATS (1795-1821)

In Keats’ poetry, the light and dark sides exist in a closely bound relationship. There can be no life without death and there can be no light without darkness. In this constant exchange of light and shadow, Keats cannot help but gaze adoringly at his bright star, the young Fanny Brawne, to whom the poet dedicated his sonnet Bright Star.

POETICS: EMOTIONS AND NATURE

Poetry is an expression of a poet' state of mind. It depends on the flow of emotions, filtered by memory because the memory's abilities reproduce that emotion in a purified and poetic form. The poet has the task of showing the truth of things to other men and to teach them to improve their feelings and ethics. Nature and the return to childhood are the most important romantic elements.

LANGUAGE

Wordsworth and Coleridge felt and expressed in the Lyrical Ballads the need to specify and define new themes and a new poetic language.His style is simple and poor in metaphors and similarities, to stay close to the common language. He abandons the heroic couplet of the eighteenth-century to return to more essential metric forms.

• FRANCE
• GERMANY
• ENGLAND

WOMEN

The romantic period is a turning point for the role of women. However the education was still a privilege for members of the most prestigious families. THE DIFFERENT EDUCATION IN :

SOCIAL REFORMS AND POETRY

The poetry in the romantic period is a response to the social and econoic changes.Poets show an interest in the whole, in integration, in unity, in the dignity of the individual person and in the alienated state of mind of people.

WILLIAM TURNER (1775-1851)

Defined as "the painter of light". His study did not only focus on how to make the light powerful on the canvas, the color had to work in synergy with it. Turner lived and worked in a period where the study of colors and related theories found their final point in Goethe's Color Theory. The balance between darkness and light was what gave birth to color, Turner studied the theories by applying them to his paintings even "dedicating" a painting to these theories.

THE SOCIAL CLASSES AND ACTS OF THIS PERIOD

In this era there was a new conformation of class relation : - Appearance of the industrial proletariat - Introduction of machines in the manufacturing processes - The new historical figures of the worker

• THE REFORM ACT 1832
• THE FACTORY ACT 1833
• ABOLITION OF SLAVERY 1833
• THE AMENDMENT OF THE POOR LAW 1834