Restoration & Romanticism Flashcards
(Restoration/ Enlightenment/ 18th Century) satire: takes normal …. and shows …
societal conventions; flaws
(Restoration/ Enlightenment/ 18th Century) Jonathan Swift- …, lived in …., wrote the … called “…”
English; Ireland; essay; A Modest Proposal
(Restoration/ Enlightenment/ 18th Century) A Modest Proposal:
a ….
Irish were … due to ….
suggested Irish should …
satire; starving; English colonization; eat their kids
(Restoration/ Enlightenment/ 18th Century) Alexander Pope wrote the … called …
poem; The Rape of the Lock
(Restoration/ Enlightenment/ 18th Century) The Rape of the Lock:
a man cut off a … and the woman …
Pope exaggerates it as actual …, there is a … in the poem
lock of hair; lost it; war; raped princess
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Romantic: … generations:
1) …, …., ….
2) …, …., ….
they were all …
2; William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron; Percy B. Shelley, John Keats, William Blake
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Romanticism is a … that grows in ….:
- …. (1776)
- …. (1789)
- …. (1760)
literary movement; revolution; American Revolution; French Revolution; Industrial Revolution
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Industrial Revolution:
- England …: … –> ….
transforms; agricultural; industrialized
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) England’s transformation and Industrial Revolution:
- … of … crumbled
- new … of people who … –> but are …, … wasn’t given to them, which was new for England
- formerly … were now …
- work no longer … with … of …
rules; past; wealthy class; own industry; independently wealthy; land; owned public spaces; private places; personal; construction; factories
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) it was illegal to … during Romantic Era despite terrible …. and long …
unionize; working conditions; hours
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Mary Wollstonecraft wrote …. (and later, of …)
William Godwin wrote ….
these works were the early stirrings of …
A Vindication for the Rights of Men; Women; Enquiry Concerning Political Justice; communism
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Wollstonecraft and Godwin were … and had a …: … who was married to …
married; daughter; Mary Shelley; Percy Shelley
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) new classes of … are forged
citizenry
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Wollstonecraft and Godwin’s works were examples of revolutionary writing advocating the rights of …., on … of … and the … of …
common people; equal distribution; wealth; destruction; government
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Adam Smith wrote …. introducing idea of …
Wealth of Nations; Laissez-faire economics
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Laissez-faire economics:
- no …
- …, …, …
- basis for …
regulation; starvation; disenfranchisement; monopolies; capitalist economics
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) laissez-faire means
let do
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) British response to loss of America led to increase in …:
-…, …, …
British Nationalism; tea; sugar; laudanum
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) laudanum: … dissolved into …
opium; alcohol
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Brits put pressure on other … to stay … through …
colonies; British; exports
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Coleridge becomes … to …
addicted; laudanum
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) British Nationalism:
- word “…” invented, represented …., ….
shopping; supporting manufacturers; patriotic duty
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) British Nationalism:
- …: idea that home is a perfectly …, …. place
Fireside Domestic Bliss: safe; comfortable
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Women in Romantic Era had limited … –> they had to be …, or know someone in …
schooling; wealthy; education
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) educated women were called: ….
intended as an insult as … were cheaper than …
BUT WE MADE IT BETTER:
Women formed the …
bluestockings; blue stockings; black stockings; Blue Stockings Society
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) women in romantic era:
rigid code of …
… (paradox):
- comparing … and … of men to that of women to affirm ….
- BUT women had …
sexual behavior; scientific sexism; body; strength; sexism; hard labor jobs
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Women regarded as being essential to … –> raising …, significant to country’s ..
nationalism; patriotic children; success
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Novel didn’t exist until … years after …
100; Shakespeare
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) only … read novels, so only … wrote them: book sales of … competing with those of …
women; women; women; men
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) it was looked down upon for men to …/…. …
read/write novels
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Zeitgeist: … —> means ….
time ghost; the spirit of the age
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) people living in Romantic Era wouldn’t have thought to call themselves
Romantic
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) contributing to schools of thought:
… school –> …/… –> …
… school –> …./… –> … to poets, name based on …
… school –> …/… –> making people think of/believe things they …
Lake; Wordsworth/Coleridge; nature
Cockney; Keats/Blake; insult; accent
Satanic; Byron/Shelley; never thought of
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) through the lens of british nationalism, a woman’s private virtues became a matter of … importance: the well being of the … and of ….
public; state; domestic life
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) British people were raised on …, and thought they were living through …
- But thought that … were causing it
- …, not … causes …
- … significant moment
King James Bible; end times; human beings; citizenry; God; human behavior; spiritually
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Wordsworth: to be … people, you need to experience the “….”
come to see world after …/…. beliefs
thinking; apocalypse of the imagination; analyzing/abandoning
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) The Lyrical Ballads- book by … and …
title basically means …
Wordsworth; Coleridge; stomping ballet
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Lyrical Ballads were way of confronting all really bad … of early ….
also driving …
poets; 18th century; apocalypse of the imagination
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Lyrical Ballads:
“….” —> Wordsworth, where writing should come from
The Spontaneous Overflow of Powerful Feeling
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) meaning of “spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling”
if writer doesn’t …, neither does the …
self-…, self-… concept:
- for Romantic poetry, speaker is the … due to this notion
-The I = the …
- even …. characters are the … –> …, belief that we all have this, this is our …., always reacting to … world, always active but we’re always … it
feel; reader; originating; organizing; poet; poet; fictional; poet; secret self; true self; external; rejecting
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Poetry, according to Wordsworth: “The … of …”
real language; men
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) men in “The real language of men” refers to …
quote refers to: …. between …, poet is “….” —> new responsibility on poets to help people … what they’re …
mankind; communication; secret selves; a man talking to men; understand; feeling
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Wordsworth’s belief: a … –> …/…, origins in early .. literature
- poets in … society had high …, because the society was …. –> poets determined one’s …, creating an … in a way
bard; poet; prophet; Anglo-Saxon; Anglo-Saxon; status; fatalist; legacy; afterlife
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) early 18th century writing centered on …, not …
wit; feeling
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) lyrical ballads:
- human experience, is not, everywhere, the …:
informed by individual …/…
external experience must be …. by the poet’s …
same; psychology; intuition; transformed; feeling
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Coleridge: “deep thinking is only attainable through …”
can only access your … by understanding what you ..
deep feeling; reason; feel
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Keats: “if poetry comes not as naturally as the … to a …, it had better not …”
idea that poets are …
leaves; tree; come at all; chosen
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) a lot of Romantic poetry takes place in …
natural world
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) idea that natural world participates in … of observer
Romantics ridiculed for such ideas
Pantheistic: nature treated in poems as … once was
feelings; God
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Natural objects not just what they are but what they … –> idea from …
- sunflower represents …
- mountains represent …
- … of the natural world
- leads to the study of … –> …
represent; Plato; happiness; strength; sociopaths; signs; semiotics
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) For these purposes, poetry written in … so that language was … –> why it’s a … (high …, common …)
- less … language
- subject matter about … people –> …, …, …, …, … –> forbidden …
common language; accessible; lyrical ballady; art; language; flowery; simple; outcasts; delinquents; prostitutes; mentally ill; convicts; glee
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) the work tended toward the …, as the subjects are those who would likely be afflicted by the …
supernatural; supernatural
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) The supernatural included:
…, …., …, …, …, …
all of this was in Shakespeare, but forced underground during the …
bewitchings; hauntings; possessions; deamonology; folklore; gothic; Enlightenment
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) the supernatural:
Wordsworth: “the addition of … to …”
- …/ …. …
- … states
- …-driven …
- the …
- the … (…) –> want to know how … works
- … (“less than … can satisfy man” –> quote by Blake), refers to …
strangeness; beauty; exotic/archaic landscapes; visionary; opium; fantasy; forbidden; self; psychology; emotion; desire; everything; insatiable desires
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) the self is where Romantics start to differ from
Shakespeare
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Romantic poetry is the poetry of …
solitude
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) The Romantic hero:
- …
- in a …, almost … landscape (…, …, …)
- half …/ half …
alone; desolate; haunted; Cain; Satan; Prometheus; charismatic; condemnable
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Publishing Romantic poetry = ultimate …
- wanted work … and … –> had to be … and thus made in …, which are part of the … that the poets are saying is causing …
- to reach …, there must be a reliance on the …, that … the world and create the … system that destroys …
irony; published; accessible; cheap; factories; Industrial Revolution; destruction; common person; machines; destroy; class; commonality
(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) In Enlightenment, poets were …. Romantics were offering sort of comfort/advice –> were they …/ …?
societal watchmen; watchmen; friends
