British romanticism: A New Way of Looking at Things

Question 1

Romanticism
- Background

Answer 1

• Romanticism as an International Phenomenon
• Romanticism as a posthumous term
  > Around 1800, ‘romantic’ meant (according to the OED) “resembling the tales of Romance”
  >”improbable, fals, fanciful, full of wild scenery” (according to Johnson’s Dickinson)
  » Its second rate, only produced for consumption

Question 2

Romanticism
- shift

Answer 2

A huge shift in the way the world is perceived, today we are still in a post-romantic era

Question 3

Enabling Catalysts of Romanticism

Answer 3

• Cultural Shifts (e.g. 18th century, Culture of Sensibility)
• Political Shifts (e.g. French Revolution)
• Social Shift (e.g. Industrial Revolution)
  > from a agricultural society to a industrial society, moving to the city

Question 4

British Romanticism