Transcript Proiect multilateral Comenius

Proiect multilateral
Comenius
The impact of the Industrial
Revolution on literature
Elevi Coordonatori:
Chircea Georgiana
Livadariu Elena
Melii Cristina
Munteanu Bianca
Roman Elena
Vizitiu Bianca
Before the Industrial Revolution
•factories subjected men, women and even
children workers to low wages
•harsh punishments and unprotected work
around dangerous machinery
•food was expensive for poor factory
workers
•malnutrition and sickness in the cities
•the use of coal in industrial production
polluted the atmosphere
•living conditions in cities became unsanitary,
cramped and impoverished
Positive aspects of the
Industrial Revolution
•New methods were used to make surgeries safer,
less painful, and keep germs from spreading inside
the body in which surgery was being performed.
•The replacement of manual labour by machines
•The emergence of large-scale manufacturing
•The steam power technology
•Modernization of cities
•Many artistic movements
•The landscape was changed
•Small towns grew into huge cities
•In the countryside, bridges, viaducts, railroad lines
and canals were built to improve transportation
The impact of the Industrial
Revolution on literature
• The destruction of the natural beauty of the landscape
triggered a nostalgic reaction in art and literature.
•The literature of the Industrial Revolution includes essays,
fiction and poetry that respond to the enormous growth of
technology.
•The artistic movements during the Industrial Revolution were
a reaction to the feelings of the time.
•The ideals of discipline, temperance, structure and views of
the Enlightenment were translated into the Romantic
Movement
•This Romantic Movement encouraged individualism, freedom
and emotion
•Romanticism was probably the most important artistic
movement to flourish during the Industrial Revolution.
•It had the most widespread effects on the general population
Romanticism
Romanticism emerged as a reaction to 18th-century values,
asserting:
•emotion and intuition over rationalism.
•the importance of the individual over social conformity
•the exploration of natural and psychic wildernesses over
classical restraint.
Major themes of Romantic art and literature include:
•a love of atmospheric landscapes;
•nostalgia for the past, particularly the Gothic;
•a love of the primitive, including folk traditions;
•cult of the individual hero figure, often an artist or political
revolutionary;
•romantic passion;
•mysticism;
•a fascination with death.
Romanticism in British Literature
THE EARLY ROMANTICISM
•Robert Burns (the ploughman poet)
•George Crabbe
•William Blake (influenced by the Medieval illuminated books)
THE LAKISTS
•William Wordsworth (utopian social thought)
•Samuel Taylor Coleridge (utopian social thought)
THE LATER ROMANTICS
•George Gordon Byron (the literary activity was connected to the political
life)
•Percy Byshe Shelley (a revolutionary idealist, the lover of classical poetry)
•John Keats (emphasized the contrast between the ugliness of life and the
beauty of nature)
Sir Walter Scott (closely connected with the genre of the historical novel)
Conclusion
The industrial revolution played a
big roll in our literature, the
literature would involve dealing
with every day problems and
nature. And people liked to read
and hear about that.
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