The Romantic age

Question 1

From when it starts?
What is the Board of Agriculture, when it was made and why?

Answer 1

1780 - 1832
It’s a reform of 1793
Industrialisation —> bad conditions of workers (rural)

Question 2

How was women conditions (social and literary)?

Answer 2

Devoted to domestic life
Women romantic poets (2)
Women romantic novelists (4)
Notions of what was appropriate for women to write (romance, sonnet)
Women wrote about their sensibility —> feminine and masculine Romanticism
Femme fatale

Question 3

How was science seen in this period?

Answer 3

Romanticism against Enlightenment (Wordsworth’s fears)
Lots of philosophical and scientific discoveries (Kant, Locke, Lamark, Galvani..)

Question 4

History

Answer 4

Whigs (English Jacobins, Duke of Portland, William Pitt, James Fox).
Ireland (1800 Union Act)
French Revolution
1815 = Corn Law
1819 = Peterloo Massacre
1820 = Cato Street Conspiracy
1832 = Form Tory to Whigs

Question 5

Literary Overview
What’s the Manifesto of Romanticism?
Nature
Printing and Act (year)

Answer 5

Lyrical Ballads of Coleridge and Wordsworth
First printing in colour and Setidious Societies Act 1799

Question 6

First and second generation of poets

Answer 6

Wordsworth, Coleridge, William Blake
Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, John Keats

Question 7

London Theatres

Answer 7

Covent Garden, Drury Lane

Question 8

How was the relationship between nature and man? What was written in the works about nature?

Answer 8

Lyrical Ballads: rural life and people
Personal relationship between nature and human

Question 9

Slave trade and colonisation

Answer 9

The Romantic movement coincided with the beginnings of a modern British imperialism.
Many Romantic writers had family who were involved in colonial trade or empire, and this is also the period when the idea of the British nation was forged
Percy Shelley also exploited the East in a series of visionary poems and dramas like The Revolt of Islam (1818), and his wife Mary Shelley with Frankenstein (1818) and The Last Man (1823), which envisions the end of the world brought by a plague from the East
Many authors wrote against colonisation (The Little Black Boy of Blake)

Question 10

Readings

Answer 10

Wordsworth - Tintern Abbey (1789)
Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility (1811)
Lord Byron - The Giaour (1813)
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus (1818; Revised 1831)