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(Restoration/ Enlightenment/ 18th Century) satire: takes normal …. and shows …

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societal conventions; flaws

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(Restoration/ Enlightenment/ 18th Century) Jonathan Swift- …, lived in …., wrote the … called “…”

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English; Ireland; essay; A Modest Proposal

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(Restoration/ Enlightenment/ 18th Century) A Modest Proposal:
a ….
Irish were … due to ….
suggested Irish should …

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satire; starving; English colonization; eat their kids

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(Restoration/ Enlightenment/ 18th Century) Alexander Pope wrote the … called …

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poem; The Rape of the Lock

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(Restoration/ Enlightenment/ 18th Century) The Rape of the Lock:
a man cut off a … and the woman …
Pope exaggerates it as actual …, there is a … in the poem

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lock of hair; lost it; war; raped princess

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Romantic: … generations:
1) …, …., ….
2) …, …., ….
they were all …

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2; William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron; Percy B. Shelley, John Keats, William Blake

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Romanticism is a … that grows in ….:

  • …. (1776)
  • …. (1789)
  • …. (1760)
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literary movement; revolution; American Revolution; French Revolution; Industrial Revolution

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Industrial Revolution:

- England …: … –> ….

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transforms; agricultural; industrialized

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) England’s transformation and Industrial Revolution:

  • … of … crumbled
  • new … of people who … –> but are …, … wasn’t given to them, which was new for England
  • formerly … were now …
  • work no longer … with … of …
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rules; past; wealthy class; own industry; independently wealthy; land; owned public spaces; private places; personal; construction; factories

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) it was illegal to … during Romantic Era despite terrible …. and long …

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unionize; working conditions; hours

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Mary Wollstonecraft wrote …. (and later, of …)
William Godwin wrote ….
these works were the early stirrings of …

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A Vindication for the Rights of Men; Women; Enquiry Concerning Political Justice; communism

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Wollstonecraft and Godwin were … and had a …: … who was married to …

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married; daughter; Mary Shelley; Percy Shelley

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) new classes of … are forged

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citizenry

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Wollstonecraft and Godwin’s works were examples of revolutionary writing advocating the rights of …., on … of … and the … of …

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common people; equal distribution; wealth; destruction; government

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Adam Smith wrote …. introducing idea of …

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Wealth of Nations; Laissez-faire economics

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Laissez-faire economics:

  • no …
  • …, …, …
  • basis for …
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regulation; starvation; disenfranchisement; monopolies; capitalist economics

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) laissez-faire means

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let do

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) British response to loss of America led to increase in …:
-…, …, …

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British Nationalism; tea; sugar; laudanum

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) laudanum: … dissolved into …

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opium; alcohol

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Brits put pressure on other … to stay … through …

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colonies; British; exports

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Coleridge becomes … to …

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addicted; laudanum

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) British Nationalism:

- word “…” invented, represented …., ….

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shopping; supporting manufacturers; patriotic duty

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) British Nationalism:

- …: idea that home is a perfectly …, …. place

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Fireside Domestic Bliss: safe; comfortable

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Women in Romantic Era had limited … –> they had to be …, or know someone in …

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schooling; wealthy; education

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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) educated women were called: .... intended as an insult as ... were cheaper than ... BUT WE MADE IT BETTER: Women formed the ...
bluestockings; blue stockings; black stockings; Blue Stockings Society
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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) women in romantic era: rigid code of ... ... (paradox): - comparing ... and ... of men to that of women to affirm .... - BUT women had ...
sexual behavior; scientific sexism; body; strength; sexism; hard labor jobs
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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Women regarded as being essential to ... --> raising ..., significant to country's ..
nationalism; patriotic children; success
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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Novel didn't exist until ... years after ...
100; Shakespeare
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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) only ... read novels, so only ... wrote them: book sales of ... competing with those of ...
women; women; women; men
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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) it was looked down upon for men to .../.... ...
read/write novels
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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Zeitgeist: ... ---> means ....
time ghost; the spirit of the age
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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) people living in Romantic Era wouldn't have thought to call themselves
Romantic
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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) contributing to schools of thought: ... school --> .../... --> ... ... school --> ..../... --> ... to poets, name based on ... ... school --> .../... --> making people think of/believe things they ...
Lake; Wordsworth/Coleridge; nature Cockney; Keats/Blake; insult; accent Satanic; Byron/Shelley; never thought of
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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) through the lens of british nationalism, a woman's private virtues became a matter of ... importance: the well being of the ... and of ....
public; state; domestic life
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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) British people were raised on ..., and thought they were living through ... - But thought that ... were causing it - ..., not ... causes ... - ... significant moment
King James Bible; end times; human beings; citizenry; God; human behavior; spiritually
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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Wordsworth: to be ... people, you need to experience the "...." come to see world after .../.... beliefs
thinking; apocalypse of the imagination; analyzing/abandoning
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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) The Lyrical Ballads- book by ... and ... title basically means ...
Wordsworth; Coleridge; stomping ballet
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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Lyrical Ballads were way of confronting all really bad ... of early .... also driving ...
poets; 18th century; apocalypse of the imagination
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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Lyrical Ballads: | "...." ---> Wordsworth, where writing should come from
The Spontaneous Overflow of Powerful Feeling
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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) meaning of "spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling" if writer doesn't ..., neither does the ... self-..., self-... concept: - for Romantic poetry, speaker is the ... due to this notion -The I = the ... - even .... characters are the ... --> ..., belief that we all have this, this is our ...., always reacting to ... world, always active but we're always ... it
feel; reader; originating; organizing; poet; poet; fictional; poet; secret self; true self; external; rejecting
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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Poetry, according to Wordsworth: "The ... of ..."
real language; men
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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) men in "The real language of men" refers to ... quote refers to: .... between ..., poet is "...." ---> new responsibility on poets to help people ... what they're ...
mankind; communication; secret selves; a man talking to men; understand; feeling
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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Wordsworth's belief: a ... --> .../..., origins in early .. literature - poets in ... society had high ..., because the society was .... --> poets determined one's ..., creating an ... in a way
bard; poet; prophet; Anglo-Saxon; Anglo-Saxon; status; fatalist; legacy; afterlife
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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) early 18th century writing centered on ..., not ...
wit; feeling
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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) lyrical ballads: - human experience, is not, everywhere, the ...: informed by individual .../... external experience must be .... by the poet's ...
same; psychology; intuition; transformed; feeling
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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Coleridge: "deep thinking is only attainable through ..." can only access your ... by understanding what you ..
deep feeling; reason; feel
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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Keats: "if poetry comes not as naturally as the ... to a ..., it had better not ..." idea that poets are ...
leaves; tree; come at all; chosen
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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) a lot of Romantic poetry takes place in ...
natural world
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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) idea that natural world participates in ... of observer Romantics ridiculed for such ideas Pantheistic: nature treated in poems as ... once was
feelings; God
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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Natural objects not just what they are but what they ... --> idea from ... - sunflower represents ... - mountains represent ... - ... of the natural world - leads to the study of ... --> ...
represent; Plato; happiness; strength; sociopaths; signs; semiotics
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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) For these purposes, poetry written in ... so that language was ... --> why it's a ... (high ..., common ...) - less ... language - subject matter about ... people --> ..., ..., ..., ..., ... --> forbidden ...
common language; accessible; lyrical ballady; art; language; flowery; simple; outcasts; delinquents; prostitutes; mentally ill; convicts; glee
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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) the work tended toward the ..., as the subjects are those who would likely be afflicted by the ...
supernatural; supernatural
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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) The supernatural included: ..., ...., ..., ..., ..., ... all of this was in Shakespeare, but forced underground during the ...
bewitchings; hauntings; possessions; deamonology; folklore; gothic; Enlightenment
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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) the supernatural: Wordsworth: "the addition of ... to ..." - .../ .... ... - ... states - ...-driven ... - the ... - the ... (...) --> want to know how ... works - ... ("less than ... can satisfy man" --> quote by Blake), refers to ...
strangeness; beauty; exotic/archaic landscapes; visionary; opium; fantasy; forbidden; self; psychology; emotion; desire; everything; insatiable desires
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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) the self is where Romantics start to differ from
Shakespeare
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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Romantic poetry is the poetry of ...
solitude
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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) The Romantic hero: - ... - in a ..., almost ... landscape (..., ..., ...) - half .../ half ...
alone; desolate; haunted; Cain; Satan; Prometheus; charismatic; condemnable
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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) Publishing Romantic poetry = ultimate ... - wanted work ... and ... --> had to be ... and thus made in ..., which are part of the ... that the poets are saying is causing ... - to reach ..., there must be a reliance on the ..., that ... the world and create the ... system that destroys ...
irony; published; accessible; cheap; factories; Industrial Revolution; destruction; common person; machines; destroy; class; commonality
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(The Romantic Era, 1785-1830) In Enlightenment, poets were .... Romantics were offering sort of comfort/advice --> were they .../ ...?
societal watchmen; watchmen; friends

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