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The Romantic Age - Introduction and Histrorical background
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The Romantic Age - Introduction and Histrorical background
1760 - 1837 is known also as "Age of Revolutions"
Industrial Revolution (1790 - 1830)
change from rural to an industrial economy
deep contrasts in the social organization
countryside: poverty mainly due to:
Enclousure Acts
the open farmland that could be freely used by everyone became enclosed and sold to the private owners
poor harvest
high prices
decline of domestic industries
new social class
workers
had no land and weren't represented in parliament
American Revolution (1776 - 83)
demand for indipendence
4TH JULY 1776 = DECLARATION OF INDIPENDENCE
separation between GB and the 13 colonies
BIRTH OF USA
George Washington
first President of the USA
increase in migration towards the West
after DISCOVERY OF GOLD
Native americans = EXTERMINATED
French Revolution (1789)
supported by poets like Blake, Wordsworth and Colerdige
became bloody and violent
with the Napoleonic wars the power of France increased and this feared England
1792-1815 and in 1804 Napoleon proclaimed himself Emperor of France and wanted to conquer Europe
Battle of Waterloo = Napoleon is defeated in 1815
Reaction against excessive faith in rationality
Celebrated harmony between men and nature, freedom, spontaneity
power of the individual and his imagination
Men's escape from urbanization
POLITIC
George ||| and William Pitt the Younger
reign: 1760-1820
prime minister
against French egemony
strenghtened his position by increasing his power
rigid governing policy and repression of any form of revolt
conservative ideas
defence of the interest of the aristocracy
EONOMY AFTER THE NAPOLENIC WARS
heavy taxation,unemployment and social problems
workers replaced by machines
increase in production
BUT ALSO
growing unemployment and frustration
LUDDIT RIOTS
1811-12: destroyed machines
1819: Peterloo Massacre
11 people killed
they only met to discuss the rise in bread prices
POVERTY AND EXPLOTATION
work in extreme conditions
low wages, long hours and children
laissez-faire attitude = NO INTERVENTION
Many people lived in SLUMS
George ||| dies
George IV follows
William IV's reign
= REFORMS
1832: Reform Bill
= vote extended to the middle classes
1833: Factory Act
made illegal employment of children < 9 years
1834: Poor Law Amendment Act
helped the homeless
gave also work in the WORKHOUSES
POSITION OF WOMEN
object of discrimination
upper classes
recieved basic education
ENGLISH COLONIES
acceleration
slavery
profitable trade
1833: ABOLISHED
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