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1、TheRomanticPeriod (1798-1832)HistoricalBackgroundPolitically:theFrenchRevolution"DeclarationofRightsofMan"(1791-2),ThomasPaine"InquiryconcerningPoliticalJustice"(1793),WilliamGodwin"AVindicationoftheRightsofWoman"(1792),MaryWollstonecraftIdeologicallyTheprincipleofRationwasgivi
2、ngwaytoanindividualized,free,liberal,imaginativeattitudetowardslife;atendencytoturnorescapefromthetumultuousandconfusingHereandNowEconomically:thegreatIndustrialRevolutionContinuedfastchangestookplacebothinthecountryandinthecities;Manyfarmhandsdrivenoutoflandrushedintothecity;W
3、omenandchildrenwereemployedascheaplabor;Newmachinesweresetup,renderingmanyoutofwork;Disparitywasgrowingbetweentherichandthepoor;Expansionabroadcontinued:(America),Australia,Canada,NewZealand,India,theWestIndiesandothernations.Romanticism/theRomanticMovementanattitudeorintellect
4、ualorientationthatcharacterizedmanyworksofartsinWesterncivilizationoveraperiodfromthelate18thtothemid-19thcentury.arejectionofthepreceptsoforder,calm,harmony,balance,idealization,andrationalityareactionagainsttheEnlightenmentandagainst18th-centuryrationalismandphysicalmateriali
5、smingeneral.emphasizingtheindividual,thesubjective,theirrational,theimaginative,thepersonal,thespontaneous,theemotional,thevisionary,andthetranscendental.Characteristicattitudesadeepenedappreciationofthebeautiesofnature;ageneralexaltationofemotionoverreasonaturninginupontheself
6、andaheightenedexaminationofhumanpersonalityanditsmoodsandmentalpotentialities;creativespiritoverstrictadherencetoformalrulesandtraditionalprocedures;anemphasisuponimaginationanobsessiveinterestinfolkculture,nationalandethnicculturalorigins,andthemedievalera;andapredilectionfort
7、heexotic,theremote,themysteriousLiteraturePoetry:theAgeofPoetryDifferencesbetween18th-centuryand19th-century(betweenNeoclassicismandRomanticism)reasonvspassionreasonvsimaginationcommercialvsnaturalindustrialvspastoralpresentvspastsocietyvsindividualorderandstabilityvsfreedomdec
8、orativeexpressionvssimpleandspontaneousexpressionNewpo
