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INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTIONS, BEFORE FIRST REVOLUTION, LITERATURE - Coggle…
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTIONS
FIRST INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
1780s- 1860s
run by: coal, iron, steam engine
agricultural society → industrial society
major rural population → major urban population
KEY INVENTIONS
Steam engine (James Watt)
Spinning jenny
Power loom
Cotton gin
ENERGY AND INDUSTRY
Shift from wood to coal
Rise of iron and steel
Birth of mechanized factories
SOCIAL IMPACT
Urbanization: people moved to cities
Factory system: long hours, child labor
New social classes: working class and industrial capitalists
SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
1870-1914
DIFFERENCES
BEFORE FIRST REVOLUTION
most people lived in rural areas
work was manual and slow
life followed natural rhythms (seasons and sunlight)
LITERATURE
KEY FIGURES
William Wordsworth
William Blake
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Percy Bysshe Shelley
John Keats
MAIN POINTS
Nature
Emotion
Imagination
Nostalgia
The Chimney Sweeper - Songs of Experience (W. Blake)
child exploitation
social injustice
curruption of the church
loss of innocence