Romatics

Question 1

society infringes on human freedom; humans should revert to a natural state (European influenced)

Answer 1

Jean-Jaques Rousseau (French)

Question 2

Germany’s Shakespeare; inspired by German lit. of Middle Ages faust (play) ; Sorrows of Young Wether (novel) (European influenced)

Answer 2

Johann Wolfgang an Goethe (German)

Question 3

William Blake (pioneer)

Answer 3

British Poetry

Question 4

poetry is “spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling”, but also “emotion recollected tranquility”

Answer 4

William Wordsworth (British)

Question 5

Samuel Taylor Caledridge

Answer 5

British Poetry

Question 6

Lord Byron

Answer 6

British Poetry

Question 7

Percy Shelley

Answer 7

British Poetry

Question 8

John Keats

Answer 8

British Poetry

Question 9

Charles Lamb

Answer 9

Essayist

Question 10

William Hazlitt

Answer 10

Essayist

Question 11

Thomas De Quincy

Answer 11

Essayist

Question 12

Gothic Novel

Answer 12

villains, heroes, ghosts, monsters, castles

Question 13

Frankenstein

Answer 13

Mary Shelley - Gothic

Question 14

Novel of Manners

Answer 14

more neoclassical; satirical study of human nature

Question 15

Pride and Prejudice, Emma

Answer 15

Jane Austin - Novel of Manners

Question 16

Historical Romance

Answer 16

fiction based on real persons/events

Question 17

Ivanhoe

Answer 17

Sir Walter Soctt

Question 18

1805

Answer 18

Battle of Trafalgar

Question 19

1807

Answer 19

Napoleon’s Armies control all of Europe to the borders of Russia

Question 20

1812 `

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Napoleon disastrous invasion of Russia leads to Bloody defeat

Question 21

1813

Answer 21

More defeats in Peninsular War w/ Portugal and Spain

Question 22

1814

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Napoleon is forced to abdicate

Question 23

1815

Answer 23

Napoleon returns for 100 days, defeat of Waterloo (Duke of Wellington) -> Monarchies restored all over Europe

Question 24

Industrial Revolution problems

Answer 24

overcrowded , unsafe, unhealthy working conditions, long hours low pay, rising populations of writer kept pay low

Question 25

Luddlite Riots

Answer 25

workers violently protest against job loss to machinery

Question 26

Peterlou Massacre

Answer 26

mounted soldiers charge into a peaceful meeting of cotton workers

Question 27

1824

Answer 27

law passes allowing labor unions to organize

Question 28

1829

Answer 28

Catholic Emancipation Act

Question 29

Catholic Emancipation Act

Answer 29

restores economic and religious freedom to Catholics

Question 30

Battle of Trafalgar

Answer 30

British fleet destroyed thus capsizing Napoleons plan of invading Britain

Question 31

1832

Answer 31

Reform Law of 1832

Question 32

Reform Law of 1832

Answer 32

voting right expanded to middle class males

Question 33

1833

Answer 33

first law governing factory safety | Parliament abolishes slavery

Question 34

1798

Answer 34

Lyrical Ballads published

Question 35

Lyrical Ballads

Answer 35

collection of Romantic Poetry by Wordsworth and Coleridge (Ancestor: Blake)