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Romatics Flashcards

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

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Jean-Jaques Rousseau (French)

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

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Johann Wolfgang an Goethe (German)

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William Blake (pioneer)

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British Poetry

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

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William Wordsworth (British)

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Samuel Taylor Caledridge

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British Poetry

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Lord Byron

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British Poetry

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Percy Shelley

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British Poetry

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John Keats

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British Poetry

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Charles Lamb

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Essayist

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William Hazlitt

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Essayist

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Thomas De Quincy

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Essayist

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12
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Gothic Novel

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villains, heroes, ghosts, monsters, castles

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13
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Frankenstein

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Mary Shelley - Gothic

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14
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Novel of Manners

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more neoclassical; satirical study of human nature

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Pride and Prejudice, Emma

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Jane Austin - Novel of Manners

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Historical Romance

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fiction based on real persons/events

17
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Ivanhoe

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Sir Walter Soctt

18
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1805

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Battle of Trafalgar

19
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1807

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

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1812 `

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Napoleon disastrous invasion of Russia leads to Bloody defeat

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1813

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More defeats in Peninsular War w/ Portugal and Spain

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1814

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Napoleon is forced to abdicate

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1815

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

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Industrial Revolution problems

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

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Luddlite Riots

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workers violently protest against job loss to machinery

26
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Peterlou Massacre

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mounted soldiers charge into a peaceful meeting of cotton workers

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1824

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law passes allowing labor unions to organize

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1829

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Catholic Emancipation Act

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Catholic Emancipation Act

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restores economic and religious freedom to Catholics

30
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Battle of Trafalgar

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British fleet destroyed thus capsizing Napoleons plan of invading Britain

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1832

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Reform Law of 1832

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Reform Law of 1832

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voting right expanded to middle class males

33
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1833

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first law governing factory safety

Parliament abolishes slavery

34
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1798

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Lyrical Ballads published

35
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Lyrical Ballads

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

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