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| When was the Romantic Period (approximately)? |
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| What was the Romantic Period shaped by? |
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| Shaped by political, social, and economic changes |
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| What did the Romantic Period period follow? What years was it? (give the nickname for this period as well) |
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| The Age of Reason/the Enlightenment from 1650s-1780s |
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| What did the Enlightenment challenge? |
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| Challenged mysticism, religion, and superstition of the Middle Ages |
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| When was the American Revolution? |
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| When was the French Revolution? |
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| What did the French/American Revolution replace (types of government)? What did they replace those with? |
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| Theocracies and absolute monarchies were replaced with republics/democracies |
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| What were conservative monarchies replaced with? |
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| What were hierarchy and tradition replaced by? |
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| Citizenship and alienable rights |
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| What proactive role did the government take? |
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| First industrial revolution |
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| A shift in manufacturing resulting from inventions of power driven machinery to replace hard labor. |
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| When did the first industrial revolution start? What did it start with? (what invention was made that started the industrial revolution) |
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| Began mid 18th century with improved machines to make textiles |
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| What did James Watt do and when? |
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| He perfected the steam engine in 1765. |
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| Who were British poets in this era? |
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| William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Blake, John Keats, and Percy Bysshe Shelley |
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| Who were British authors/writers in this era? |
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| Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and Lord Byron (George Gordon) |
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| The husband of Mary Wollstonecraft (Shelley) |
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| The anonymous publication by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (date as well) |
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| The two publications of Frankenstein (date and if they were anonymous) |
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| 1818, anonymous, then 1831 with an introduction by Mary Shelley |
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| Publication by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about killing a bird |
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| Rime of the ancient Marinor |
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| American parallels: poets |
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| Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson |
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| American parallels: authors/writers |
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| Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| The name of the famous book by Henry David Thoreau |
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| The name of the famous book by Herman Melville |
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| When were Emily Dickinson's poems published? What was she known as? |
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| After her death, and known as a agoraphobic |
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| Literary genres of the Romantic Period? |
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| Poetry, Essays, Drama, and novels |
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| What did Percy Bysshe Shelley write? what genre was it? |
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| Prometheus unbound, drama |
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| What was the subtitle of Frankenstein? |
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| An introduction to a literary piece |
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| What publication justified the "new" poetry by William Wordsworth? |
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| Wordsworth's extended preface to the 2nd edition of Lyrical Ballads in the 1800s |
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| What did William Wordsworth's statement consist of? What effect did it have? |
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| Consists of poetic principles, opposed ancient regime. |
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| To Wordsworth, what did present day poetic pieces impose and distort? |
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| It imposed on poetry's artificial conventions, distorted its free and natural expression |
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| what did Woodsworth describe all good poetry as? What did he stress on in poetry? What did he refer to? |
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| at the moment of composition, "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling." He stressed on the inner feelings of the poet. Referred to mind, imagination, emotions of poet |
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| What was a big part of poetry in the Romantic Period? |
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| Focus on lyric poems written in the first person. |
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| What did Percy Bysshe Shelly believe regarding poetry? |
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| It was a mistake to say the finest passages of poetry are created by labor and study, rather the finest writing is made by conscious creativity |
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| What is synonymous to Romantic Poetry |
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| What do romantic poems habitually endow |
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| landscape with human life, passion, expressiveness |
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| What was the Romantic Period all about? |
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| Individualism and non-conformity, the mind creates its own experience |
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| What was the Romantic Period moving away from? what did it test |
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| the age of reason/enlightenment. tested the boundary of what people can feel and do. |
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| author of Frankenstein. Mother was a vindicator of woman's rights, Mary Wollstonecraft, her father was William Godwin (literary family). |
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| How was Frankenstein made? |
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| She conversed with Percy, lord byron, William Polidori (all writers). She had dream and wrote thematic novel based on that |
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| An electrical current that is direct, especially when made by chemical actions |
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| Who was Galvanism named after, when, how? |
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| Luigi Galvani in the 1790s, touched two different metals to a dead frog's leg with exposed nerves, and the leg twitched. |
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| What did Galvani conclude after his frog experiment? |
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| Concluded electricity was inherent to animal, and that "animal electricity" is a form of electricity |
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| What was Alessandro Volta's conclusion? |
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| Electricity originated in the bi metal arc, resulting the flow of electricity to produce muscular contractions. |
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| How does romanticism relate to galvinism? |
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| Galvanism influenced ideas in Frankenstein, and Frankenstein was written in the Romantic Period where people were encouraged to explore new ideas like these. |
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| What did galvanism imply? |
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| The release, through electricity, of mysterious life forces |
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| What did Volta's experiments lead to? |
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| Electrochemistry, knowledge regarding chemical reactions that can be traced to Volta and Galvani, and voltaic cells liek the car battery |
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