British Romanticism
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British Romanticism. Introduction to the Social/Cultural Contexts. Influences behind British Romanticism. 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
British Romanticism
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British Romanticism Introduction to the Social/Cultural Contexts
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