My argument in this essay is that, after the French Revolution, the English Romantic self, as represented in several poems of WilliamWordsworth, goes through a purifying process for its identification, but as represented in the poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, it also goes through a purgatorial process for its annihilation in the later Romantic period. The process for Wordsworth is primarily acco
Radically democratic political club of the French Revolution
Today> Any extreme political radical
Foundation
- Estates-General of 1789
Rapid Growth
The Reign of Terror
“To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is barbarity. “
English Jacobins
- English Supporters of the French Revolution- Edmund Burke, “Reflections on the Revolution in France and
낭만주의
18세기 말부터 19세기 전반 유럽에서 유행
고전주의의 완결성, 합목적성에 반대되는 감성의 해방, 무한에 대한 동경과 불안, 질서와 논리에 대한 반항을 특징으로 하는 문학사조
낭만주의 발생배경
절대왕정의 이완 및 부르주아의 발흥
이성에 의한 비합리적인 면
- 감각에서 인
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen - (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817)
Romantic fiction
Landed gentry
Realism – biting irony & social commentary
Constant support from family
Epistolary novel
18th century ~ 19th century
Dependence of women on marriage to secure social standing & economic security
Austen’s works - Sense and Sensibility
1. Sense and Sensib