ENGL 340 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - French Revolution, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Edmund Burke

• School: Queen's University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 340
• Professor: Emma Peacocke

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It was defined by political events such as the french revolution breaking out in 1789, napoleonic wars, outlawing the transatlantic slave trade in 1807, the passage of the great reform act in 1832. Two very influential books still shaping scholarship on romanticism. Jero(cid:373)e mcga(cid:374)(cid:374)"s the romantic ideology: suggests that we are still thinking inside the terms that ro(cid:373)a(cid:374)ticis(cid:373) has set. Truggles to see (cid:449)hat u(cid:374)ifies e(cid:448)e(cid:374) the (cid:862)big ix(cid:863) ro(cid:373)a(cid:374)tic poets. Realizes that romanticism one of the very first literary movements that does not seek to find definitive answers, but prefers an ongoing struggle, agon. Nicola watson and mary favret, at the limits of romanticism: blows the doors open to more voices, more authors, more fields of study, especially gender. Start of a movement to re-evaluate the romantic canon, to include more authors (hemans) and value more forms of writing (for literary magazines and other reasons). (cid:862)the age of the spirit of the age. (cid:863)