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ENGL 214, Fall 2010 3 terms

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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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ENGL 211, Summer 2010

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