ROMANTICISM - created from Mind Map

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A NEW SENSIBILITY = NEW SET OF IDEALS/TRENDS

A new concept of nature = real and living being

The sublime

Feelings

Imagination

Western Europe in the mid-18 century (1760-1837)

revolutions

individualism

CENTRAL MOMENTS

Reflective poetry

Melancholy

SUbjective, autobiographical material

Interest in humble and everyday life

INDUSTRIALIZATION

Technological innovations

Appalling conditions for the workers' classes

Started in Britain

1712: Thomas Newcomen --> steam engine

ca 1764: James --> increased spinning efficiency

1769: James Watt --> new steam engine

1787: Edmund Cartwright --> power loom

agricultural --> industrialised nation

The Marais, Paris, May 1762

Brook Street, London, August 1770

Leipzig, Germany, 1774

Madrid, Spain, 1798

The Lake District, England, December 1799

Niagara, United States, September 1829

Westminster, London, April 1847

Saint-Germain, Paris, May 1863

Le Havre, April 1891

"Emile" or "On Education" by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Thomas Chatterton killed himself

"The sorrows of young Werther" by Goethe

"The sleep of reasonbrings out monsters" by Francisco Goya

William Wordsworth + his sister Dorothy moved in Dove cottage in Grasmere

Thomas Cole's paint

Augustus Pugin designed a new building for the Parliament

Charles Baudelaire wrote a prose celebrating a "flaneur"

Paul Gauguin set sail for Tahiti