Unit 4 – Rebels and Dreamers

1. The Romantic Period 1798 -1832 Unit 4 – Rebels and Dreamers

2. Define the following Names and Terms to Know (page 651) • French Revolution • Bastille • Reign of Terror • Industrial Revolution • Tories • Whigs • Romanticism • Jean-Jacques Rousseau

3. Look on the Timeline on page 653… • Name two technological improvements in this period. • What nation’s affairs dominated the European scene prior to 1816? • Name three events that suggest that Britain suffered from popular unrest in the years after 1816.

4. Historical Background • The ____________ Period, nearly all the attitudes and tendencies of eighteenth century classicism and rationalism were defined or changed dramatically. • The ____________ Revolution – a mob stormed Bastille, a Paris prison for political prisoners. • France became a _________________ monarchy.

5. The Reign of Terror • Revolutionaries tried and convicted __________________ on a charge of treason and sent him to the _______________. • Les Miserables. • Those British who originally supported revolution now turned against it. • The ____________ government lead by William Pitt, outlawed all talk of parliamentary reform outside the halls, banned public meetings, and suspended certain basic rights.

6. Industrial Revolution • Overcrowded factory towns • Unpleasant and unsafe working conditions • Long working hours for low pay • People began to protest • A new generation of _____________ emerged in the 1820s and reforms took place. • The _________ Bill of 1832 brought sweeping changes to British political life.

7. Literature of the Period • New interest in the trials and dreams of the _____________ people. • Deep attachment to nature and a pure, simple past. • Swiss born writer _________________ – “Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.” • Goethe – works filled with myth, adventure, and passion

8. Romanticism • Affected the other arts as well. • Wordsworth wrote ________________. • Ordinary things should be presented in an ____________ way. • ____________ not a force to be tamed and analyzed but a wild, free source of inspiration. • The younger “____________ generation” rebelled more strongly against the conservatism. • Keats - Odes

9. British Prose • ____________ was the dominant literary form but prose works also appeared. • Mary Shelley - __________________ • Jane Austen - __________________