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the romantic age
revolutions
American revolution: American War of Independence (1775-83) and Declaration of Independence from British rule (1776)
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Agrarian Revolution
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The enclosure of ‘open fields’ and common land aimed at making larger, more efficient farms
Industrial society
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Terrible living conditions: People lived in slums, Lack of elementary public services, air and water pollution, overcrowding...
Working conditions: women and children were exploited, long working hours, rational division of labour
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romanticism
the period in which new ideas and attitudes arose in reaction to the dominant 18th-century ideals of order, calm, harmony, balance, rationality
Romanticism in England expressed itself especially in poetry. Novels were mainly of two kinds: realistic/ fantastic (the Gothic novels). No Drama
Nature for the Romantics: Opposed to reason, A way to discover the inner self, A source of sensations
The Romantic imagination: A creative power superior to reason, A dynamic, active, rather than passive power,