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Restoration & Romanticism Flashcards

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(Restoration/ Enlightenment/ 18th Century) satire: takes normal …. and shows …

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societal conventions; flaws

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(Restoration/ Enlightenment/ 18th Century) Jonathan Swift- …, lived in …., wrote the … called “…”

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English; Ireland; essay; A Modest Proposal

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(Restoration/ Enlightenment/ 18th Century) A Modest Proposal:
a ….
Irish were … due to ….
suggested Irish should …

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satire; starving; English colonization; eat their kids

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(Restoration/ Enlightenment/ 18th Century) Alexander Pope wrote the … called …

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poem; The Rape of the Lock

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(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

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lock of hair; lost it; war; raped princess

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Romantic: … generations:
1) …, …., ….
2) …, …., ….
they were all …

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2; William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron; Percy B. Shelley, John Keats, William Blake

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Romanticism is a … that grows in ….:

  • …. (1776)
  • …. (1789)
  • …. (1760)
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literary movement; revolution; American Revolution; French Revolution; Industrial Revolution

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Industrial Revolution:

- England …: … –> ….

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transforms; agricultural; industrialized

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(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 …
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rules; past; wealthy class; own industry; independently wealthy; land; owned public spaces; private places; personal; construction; factories

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) it was illegal to … during Romantic Era despite terrible …. and long …

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unionize; working conditions; hours

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Mary Wollstonecraft wrote …. (and later, of …)
William Godwin wrote ….
these works were the early stirrings of …

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A Vindication for the Rights of Men; Women; Enquiry Concerning Political Justice; communism

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Wollstonecraft and Godwin were … and had a …: … who was married to …

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married; daughter; Mary Shelley; Percy Shelley

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) new classes of … are forged

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citizenry

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Wollstonecraft and Godwin’s works were examples of revolutionary writing advocating the rights of …., on … of … and the … of …

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common people; equal distribution; wealth; destruction; government

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Adam Smith wrote …. introducing idea of …

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Wealth of Nations; Laissez-faire economics

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Laissez-faire economics:

  • no …
  • …, …, …
  • basis for …
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regulation; starvation; disenfranchisement; monopolies; capitalist economics

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) laissez-faire means

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let do

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) British response to loss of America led to increase in …:
-…, …, …

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British Nationalism; tea; sugar; laudanum

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) laudanum: … dissolved into …

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opium; alcohol

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Brits put pressure on other … to stay … through …

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colonies; British; exports

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Coleridge becomes … to …

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addicted; laudanum

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) British Nationalism:

- word “…” invented, represented …., ….

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shopping; supporting manufacturers; patriotic duty

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) British Nationalism:

- …: idea that home is a perfectly …, …. place

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Fireside Domestic Bliss: safe; comfortable

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Women in Romantic Era had limited … –> they had to be …, or know someone in …

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schooling; wealthy; education

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(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 …

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bluestockings; blue stockings; black stockings; Blue Stockings Society

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(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 …

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sexual behavior; scientific sexism; body; strength; sexism; hard labor jobs

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Women regarded as being essential to … –> raising …, significant to country’s ..

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nationalism; patriotic children; success

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Novel didn’t exist until … years after …

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100; Shakespeare

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) only … read novels, so only … wrote them: book sales of … competing with those of …

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women; women; women; men

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) it was looked down upon for men to …/…. …

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read/write novels

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Zeitgeist: … —> means ….

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time ghost; the spirit of the age

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) people living in Romantic Era wouldn’t have thought to call themselves

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Romantic

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(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 …

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Lake; Wordsworth/Coleridge; nature
Cockney; Keats/Blake; insult; accent
Satanic; Byron/Shelley; never thought of

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(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 ….

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public; state; domestic life

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(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
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King James Bible; end times; human beings; citizenry; God; human behavior; spiritually

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Wordsworth: to be … people, you need to experience the “….”
come to see world after …/…. beliefs

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thinking; apocalypse of the imagination; analyzing/abandoning

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) The Lyrical Ballads- book by … and …
title basically means …

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Wordsworth; Coleridge; stomping ballet

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Lyrical Ballads were way of confronting all really bad … of early ….
also driving …

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poets; 18th century; apocalypse of the imagination

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Lyrical Ballads:

“….” —> Wordsworth, where writing should come from

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The Spontaneous Overflow of Powerful Feeling

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(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

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feel; reader; originating; organizing; poet; poet; fictional; poet; secret self; true self; external; rejecting

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Poetry, according to Wordsworth: “The … of …”

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real language; men

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(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 …

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mankind; communication; secret selves; a man talking to men; understand; feeling

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(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

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bard; poet; prophet; Anglo-Saxon; Anglo-Saxon; status; fatalist; legacy; afterlife

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) early 18th century writing centered on …, not …

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wit; feeling

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) lyrical ballads:
- human experience, is not, everywhere, the …:
informed by individual …/…
external experience must be …. by the poet’s …

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same; psychology; intuition; transformed; feeling

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Coleridge: “deep thinking is only attainable through …”
can only access your … by understanding what you ..

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deep feeling; reason; feel

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Keats: “if poetry comes not as naturally as the … to a …, it had better not …”
idea that poets are …

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leaves; tree; come at all; chosen

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) a lot of Romantic poetry takes place in …

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natural world

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(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

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feelings; God

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(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 … –> …
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represent; Plato; happiness; strength; sociopaths; signs; semiotics

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(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 …
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common language; accessible; lyrical ballady; art; language; flowery; simple; outcasts; delinquents; prostitutes; mentally ill; convicts; glee

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) the work tended toward the …, as the subjects are those who would likely be afflicted by the …

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supernatural; supernatural

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) The supernatural included:
…, …., …, …, …, …
all of this was in Shakespeare, but forced underground during the …

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bewitchings; hauntings; possessions; deamonology; folklore; gothic; Enlightenment

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(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 …

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strangeness; beauty; exotic/archaic landscapes; visionary; opium; fantasy; forbidden; self; psychology; emotion; desire; everything; insatiable desires

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) the self is where Romantics start to differ from

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Shakespeare

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Romantic poetry is the poetry of …

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solitude

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) The Romantic hero:

  • …
  • in a …, almost … landscape (…, …, …)
  • half …/ half …
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alone; desolate; haunted; Cain; Satan; Prometheus; charismatic; condemnable

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(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 …
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irony; published; accessible; cheap; factories; Industrial Revolution; destruction; common person; machines; destroy; class; commonality

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) In Enlightenment, poets were …. Romantics were offering sort of comfort/advice –> were they …/ …?

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societal watchmen; watchmen; friends

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