The Romantic Era Flashcards
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The Romantic Era
the ‘Peterloo’ massacre
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The Romantic Era
The Mirror + The Lamp
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The Romantic Era
Summary of Significant Changes
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- Ongoing re-shaping of the English landscape (urbanization, enclosure)
- Intensification of commercialization & industrialization
- Continuing spread of literacy, growth of ‘the reading nation’ (books become more accessible, the 1774 copyright ruling makes older books more affordable, new technologies allow for mass printing)
- Dissolution of the post-1688 political arrangements
Abolition of the Test and Corporation Acts, 1828
Enfranchisement of Catholics, 1829
1st Reform Bill of 1832 - A continuing, increasing emphasis on the individual, esp. from a “rights” perspective
- New pressures on the supremacy of Lockean empiricism, rooted in notions of subjectivity
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The Romantic Era
Political & Religious Contexts
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- RE: The legacy of the post-1688 settlements
- Mid- & late-seventeenth-century British conflicts rooted in questions of religious difference
- Constitutional settlements of post-1688 designed to smooth over many of those differences, unify the nation under the banner of the re-established Church of England
- But it was always a compromise that that left many Britons on the outside, limiting who could participate in British civic life (Dissenters, Catholics)
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Lockean empiricism
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