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1、TheRomanticPeriod (1798-1832)HistoricalBackgroundPolitically:theFrenchRevolution"DeclarationofRightsofMan"(1791-2),ThomasPaine"InquiryconcerningPoliticalJustice"(1793),WilliamGodwin"AVindicationoftheRightsofWoman"(1792),MaryWollstonecraftIdeologicallyTheprincipleofRat
2、ionwasgivingwaytoanindividualized,free,liberal,imaginativeattitudetowardslife;atendencytoturnorescapefromthetumultuousandconfusingHereandNowEconomically:thegreatIndustrialRevolutionContinuedfastchangestookplacebothinthecountryandinthecities;Manyfarmhandsdrivenoutoflan
3、drushedintothecity;Womenandchildrenwereemployedascheaplabor;Newmachinesweresetup,renderingmanyoutofwork;Disparitywasgrowingbetweentherichandthepoor;Expansionabroadcontinued:(America),Australia,Canada,NewZealand,India,theWestIndiesandothernations.Romanticism/theRomanti
4、cMovementanattitudeorintellectualorientationthatcharacterizedmanyworksofartsinWesterncivilizationoveraperiodfromthelate18thtothemid-19thcentury.arejectionofthepreceptsoforder,calm,harmony,balance,idealization,andrationalityareactionagainsttheEnlightenmentandagainst18t
5、h-centuryrationalismandphysicalmaterialismingeneral.emphasizingtheindividual,thesubjective,theirrational,theimaginative,thepersonal,thespontaneous,theemotional,thevisionary,andthetranscendental.Characteristicattitudesadeepenedappreciationofthebeautiesofnature;ageneral
6、exaltationofemotionoverreasonaturninginupontheselfandaheightenedexaminationofhumanpersonalityanditsmoodsandmentalpotentialities;creativespiritoverstrictadherencetoformalrulesandtraditionalprocedures;anemphasisuponimaginationanobsessiveinterestinfolkculture,nationaland
7、ethnicculturalorigins,andthemedievalera;andapredilectionfortheexotic,theremote,themysteriousLiteraturePoetry:theAgeofPoetryDifferencesbetween18th-centuryand19th-century(betweenNeoclassicismandRomanticism)reasonvspassionreasonvsimaginationcommercialvsnaturalindustrialv
8、spastoralpresentvspastsocietyvsindividualorderandstabilityvsfreedomdecorativeexpressionvssimpleandspontaneousexpressionNewpo
