Industrialism, Capitalism, and Socialism. Effects of Industrialism Word Attack.
Engl 214 fall 2010 week x.x enlightenment industrialism romanticism
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3 terms
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Enlightenment
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Industrialism
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Romanticism
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Enlightenment
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18th century Western movement in philosophy, politics, science
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Galileo and Newton – 17th century
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René Descartes(“ergo cogito sum”: “I think
therefore I am”)
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“Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. ... Sapere aude! [Dare to know!] ‘Have courage to use your own reason!’- that is the motto of enlightenment.”
-- German Philosopher, Immanual Kant - “What is Enlightenment?”
(Was ist Äufklarung?) (1784)
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Reason (science, philosophy) is the final authority, not theology or kings
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Industrialism
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steam engine
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James Watt, 1776
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spread of machinery in textiles, mining,
transportation
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Romanticism
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literary and philosophical movement, @1770-1830s
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“Romance”
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“Romance” - mythic narrative, fantasy, imaginary writing,
often involving a quest (Sir Walter Raleigh, King Arthur tales, Don Quixote)
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Philosophical Romanticism: German philosophy (Hegel,
Schelling, Novalis)- stress on ‘organic’ principle,
harmony between part and the whole
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Literary Romanticism: British Literature, especially
poetry (Blake, Wordsworth, Keats, Coleridge)
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revolt against the ‘classicist’ rules of literary composition
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return to nature, esp. as source of goodness/innocence
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Importance of the sensual over the intellectual (sensuous language):
revolt against Enlightenment logic and abstraction
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emphasis on the artist as individual creator and literature as expression
of this individuality
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William Blake: revolt against the book as a “machine”; mass
reproducibility is an affront to the originality of art