英美文学英国浪漫主义时期.docx

Chapter3:TheRomanticPeriod

考核要求:
1.识记：浪漫主义时期的界定和历史文化背景
2.领会：浪漫主义思潮的意义与影响以及浪漫主义文学创作的基本主张及对后世文学的影响。
3.应用：名词解释浪漫主义以及浪漫主义时期文学特点的分析

1.Historicalbackground:
Internationally,
①TheFrenchRevolutions:--thegreatevent,arousegreatsympathyandenthusiasmintheEnglishliberalsandConservatives,theyalldeclaredLiberty,EqualityandFraternity
②Rousseau--thegreatFrenchPhilosopher.InfluencebyRousseau,thewritersbegantoexplorethenewideasaboutNature,SocietyandEducation
ThesepavedthewayforthedevelopmentofRomanticismintheliteratureinternationally

Nationally,
①Industrialrevolution(Industrialization,FurthercapitalizationandUrbanization)
②Thesurvivaloffittest(thesharpercontradictionbetweencapitalistsandthelabors)
ThesearethenationalbasisoftheproductionofRomanticism

2.Literaturebackground:
TheearlyworkswithRomantictendencyarefollowing:
ThomasPaine’sTheDeclarationofRightsofManclaimingLiberty,EqualityandFraternity.
EdmundBurkepublishedhisReflectionsontheRevolutioninFrance.
WilliamGodwin’sInquiryConcerningPoliticalJustice.Againsttheinjustice,economicsystemandtheoppressionofthepoor.
MaryWollstonecrafturgedtheequalrightsforwomeninherAVindication(辩护)oftheRightofWoman.

3.Thedefinition,durationandcharacteristicsoftheRomanticism:
①Thedefinition:
TheRomanticMovement,whichassociatedwithvitality,powerfulemotionanddreamlikeideas,issimplytheexpressionoflifeasseenbytheimaginationratherthanbyprosaiccommonsense.

ThecontrastbetweenRomanticismandNeoclassicism:
Romanticism:associatedwithvitality,powerfulemotionanddreamlikeideas
Neoclassicism:associatedwithorder,commonsenseandcontrolledreason

②Duration:
Beginningtime:1798markedbythepublicationofLyricalBalladsbyWordsworthandColeridge
Endingtime:1832markedbythedeathofScottandthepassageofthefirstReformBill
【例题】WhichofthefollowingpoemsisalandmarkinEnglishpoetry?(0704)
A.LyricalBalladsbyWilliamWordsworthandSamuelTaylorColeridge
B.“IWanderedLonelyasaCloud”byWilliamWordsworth
C.“Remorse”bySamuelTaylorColeridge
D.LeavesofGrassWaltWhitman
【答案】A
【解析】(P157.para.1)
所谓landmark，