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British Romanticism Introduction to the Social/Cultural Contexts

Influences behind British Romanticism

British Romanticism the Europen Enlightenment of the 18th Century

the Industrial Revolution

German Romanticism (1770s--)

The Age of Enlightenment • The faith in the autonomy of reason as instrument • The belief in mankind’s essentially similarity in all ages and origins • The projected order governing nature, man, society and human perfectibility

The Industrial Revolution • Agricultural, technological, and communication progresses through machines and systematic organization • Increase of population and urbanization • The rise of the middle/working classes, their rights versus feudalistic hierarchy

German Romanticism • Time: 1770s-• Figures: J. G. von Herder, Johann Wolfgan von Geothe, Fridrich Schiller • The enlightenment: the mind as recipient of the universe; German Romanticism: the mind as the creator of experience • Aiming to establish indigenous German literary tradition

Influences behind British Romanticism British Romanticism

1.the emphasis on nature: the sublime and the mysterious 2. the mind: the imaginative, the emotional, and the prophetic voice/vision 3. individual mind versus society the Europen Enlightenment of the 18th Century 1. faith in the autonom of reason as instrument 2. belief in the mankind as essential y similar in ages and orgins 3. projected order governing the world and mankind's perfectability

the Industrial Revolution 1. agricultural and technological progresses 2. increase of population and urbanization 3. the rise of the middle/working classes

German Romanticism (1770s--) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schil er 1. the mind creates, not receiving experience/universe 2. aiming to establish indigenous German literary tradition

Influences behind British Romanticism British Romanticism

1.the emphasis on nature: the sublime and the mysterious 2. the mind: the imaginative, the emotional, and the prophetic voice/vision 3. individual mind versus society the Europen Enlightenment of the 18th Century 1. faith in the autonom of reason as instrument 2. belief in the mankind as essential y similar in ages and orgins 3. projected order governing the world and mankind's perfectability

the Industrial Revolution 1. agricultural and technological progresses 2. increase of population and urbanization 3. the rise of the middle/working classes

German Romanticism (1770s--) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schil er 1. the mind creates, not receiving experience/universe 2. aiming to establish indigenous German literary tradition