BRITISH LITERATURE (from 19th cent. up to now) ROMANTICISM (first half of 19th cent.) • Romantic poetry – two generations: • „Lake school“ (Wordsworth‚ Coleridge) • Byron‚ Shelley‚ Keats • Romantic novel – historical novel (Sir Walter Scott) – gothic novel‚ horror (Mary Shelley) The Lake Poets The Lyrical Ballads William Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge The second generation George Gordon Byron: Childe Harold´s Pilgrimage Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ode to the West Wind John Keats: Ode to a
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Throughout the 19th century America experienced booming prosperity in economic growth‚ new inventions‚ and diversity. Americans wanted to attain a culture that was unique and did not resemble Europe in any way. Groups dissatisfied with European representations of government and life styles in general‚ initiated Utopian models organized by leaders whose focus was to bring together groups of people to form a perfect society. “UTOPIA is originally a Greek word for an imaginary place where everyone
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discussing “Realism” as my subject. “Realism‚ in art‚ the movement of the mid-19th cent. formed in reaction against the severely academic production of the French school. Realist painters sought to portray what they saw without idealizing it‚ choosing their subjects from the commonplaces of everyday life. Major realists included Gustave Courbet‚ J. F. Millet‚ and Honoré Daumier. In a broader sense the term is applied to an unembellished rendering of natural forms. In recent years realism has come to
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THE RISE OF REALISM (1860-1914) The U.S. Civil War (1861-1865) between the industrial North and the agricultural‚ slave-owning South was an important event that marked American history. Before the war‚ idealists championed human rights‚ especially the abolition of slavery; after the war‚ Americans increasingly idealized progress and the selfmade man. Business boomed after the war. War production had boosted industry in the North and given it prestige and political clout. The enormous natural resources
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The debate on Romania’s developmental path started in the second half of the 19th century. It is generally accepted nowadays that the philosopher and literary critic Titu Maiorescu (1840-1917) was the first outstanding intellectual who articulated a radical critique of the modernization program based on the implementation of Western-type institutions in Romania. It is in his seminal article "În contra direcţiei de astăzi în cultura română" (Against the current trend in Romanian culture)‚ published
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Danielle Heinemann September 10‚ 2014 His 106 Section 8 Bailey When the English people started to arrive in America around the 19th century‚ they saw the land as their land. The government felt that the colonizing of people was much more the entitlement of the Native American and made several federal policies that insured specific tribes would be moved to pre-determined reservations to continue their traditional way of life. This was done despite how negatively it affected the Native Americans
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Expansionism in America during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century shared many similarities and differences to that of previous American expansionist ideals. In both cases of American expansionism‚ the Americans believed that we must expand our borders in order to keep the country running upright. Also‚ the Americans believed that the United States was the strongest of nations‚ and that they could take any land they pleased. This is shown in the "manifest destiny" of the 1840’s and the
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Vietnam and the 20th Century Western Experience Ashley Manuel Religious strife and totalitarian regimes have always been enemies of religious freedom. Dominant religions are sometimes accustomed to wielding legal authority and that power may be abused. Totalitarian religious regimes can be particularly malevolent as they claim divine right for the heinous acts they commit. Nowhere is this more apparent than Vietnam‚ which was heavily influenced by a totalitarian French Catholicism. The Vietnamese
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In the 19th century‚ many changes of art took place. It started with a new "realism" approach‚ where artists did no longer want to paint what they were told to paint. The things that they previously had to paint were religious‚ Greek‚ or aristocratic. They were many art students that had the desire to step out of the box and paint "real life"‚ or the lives of regular people. This was a stark difference and shocking to people as all of the sudden their servants were depicted working hard in the fields
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22nd January 08 Describe Law And Order In C19th London London in the late 19th century was quite clearly split into two main classes‚ rich and poor. There wasn’t really an in-between‚ and not only were the classes split by income‚ but also where they lived. The rich mainly resided in the West End of the great city‚ while the poor in the East End. At the time London was one of the largest cities in the world‚ and therefore one of the main areas of attraction and action for all. People would
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