https://padlet.com/bailey_axthelm/wonhqxr9ontp Made with a lightning strike of genius en-us 2017-05-03 16:52:37 UTC 2017-05-03 17:46:31 UTC hello@padlet.com rachelmiller215 https://padlet.com/bailey_axthelm/wonhqxr9ontp/wish/169735562 The romantic fascination with the supernatural is still thriving in today's books and movies. Jane Austen and Mary Shelley are just two of the authors whose works have been transformed into blockbuster films. Movies such as Clueless and Diary of Bridget Jones are spinoffs of Jane Austen's, Emma and Pride and Prejudice. Mary Shelley's, Frankenstein, has similar imitations such as The Matrix. The Romantic Period has certain characteristics that are still enjoyed in entertainment today.]]> 2017-05-03 16:52:37 UTC https://padlet.com/bailey_axthelm/wonhqxr9ontp/wish/169735562 hayleybelcher29 https://padlet.com/bailey_axthelm/wonhqxr9ontp/wish/169735619  When France invaded the Netherlands in 1793, Britain entered into a war with France that would that lasted for more than 25 years. Near the end of the century rebellious Irishmen and rose up against their British-controlled rulers. Though this rebellion ended, the threat of a French invasion of Britain by way of Ireland remained. Hoping to ease the situation, the Tory prime minister William Pitt (son of the William Pitt who had led Britain in the Seven Years’ War) persuaded Parliament to pass the Act of Union in 1800. Ireland would be represented in the British Parliament, and all the British Isles would be joined as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. ]]> 2017-05-03 16:52:48 UTC https://padlet.com/bailey_axthelm/wonhqxr9ontp/wish/169735619 https://padlet.com/bailey_axthelm/wonhqxr9ontp/wish/169735649  In England, the romantics were writers who revolted against the order, propriety, and traditionalism of the Age of Reason. The romantics, in contrast, were influenced by the same forces that gave rise to the American and French revolutions and by the agitation for political, social, and economic change taking place in their own country. As a result, they searched for freer artistic forms, outside the classical tradition. Romantic poets abandoned the measured, witty heroic couplet for the musical rhythms and richly evocative language of medieval and Renaissance poetry. ]]> 2017-05-03 16:52:53 UTC https://padlet.com/bailey_axthelm/wonhqxr9ontp/wish/169735649 ferguson_emma157 https://padlet.com/bailey_axthelm/wonhqxr9ontp/wish/169735677 Liberty, equality, and brotherhood spurred the French Revolution. In the heady early years of France’s revolution, writers such as William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William Blake saw it as a turning point in the history of humankind, a move toward a more ideal and civilized society.  George III was not a particularly capable king, and he was bewildered by the unprecedented political events taking place in America and France. Later on he suffered from mental illness and a heart attack  During the Reign of Terror, radicals massacred and persecuted thousands of French aristocrats and middle-class citizens, to the horror of the English people who were all too aware of the restless laboring masses in their own country and the social ills afflicting their own lower class.  At this time in England, there were indeed many social ills afflicting society. The new industrial centers in the north and west had no representation in Parliament, and archaic laws denied rights to many religious groups. ]]> 2017-05-03 16:52:58 UTC https://padlet.com/bailey_axthelm/wonhqxr9ontp/wish/169735677 https://padlet.com/bailey_axthelm/wonhqxr9ontp/wish/169735708  During the Regency, a second generation of romantic poets came on the literary scene, the most prominent was George Gordon, Lord Byron.  The aristocrat won instant fame after publicizing the first part of his poem "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage." Byron was the darling of a fashionable London for a while, but his personal escapades  eventually made him the subject of scandal. In 1816 he left Britain for a self-imposed exile on the European continent, where he died of a fever while helping the Greeks fight for independence. He consistently remained the most famous of romantic poets throughout the 19th century. The Byronic hero became a staple of literary fiction that many other artists, including younger poets, tried to imitate. Shelley being an admirer of the philosopher William Godwin, scandalized london when he married Godwin's 16-year-old daughter, Mary. He spent his last years abroad, writing parts of dramas The Cenci and Prometheus Unbound]]> 2017-05-03 16:53:03 UTC https://padlet.com/bailey_axthelm/wonhqxr9ontp/wish/169735708 https://padlet.com/bailey_axthelm/wonhqxr9ontp/wish/169735779 William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote a poem together called Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems. It was with this publication that the Romantic Period is traditionally said to have begun.
Lyrical Ballads was focused on two aspects of human experience, the natural and supernatural. Wordsworth, Coleridge, and their friend Robert Southey moved near a beautiful lake district and were known as the lake poets. one talented prose writer of the era seems largely untouched by the romantic movement. Jane Austen remained in many ways a neoclassical writer. Her novels often called "novels of manners" include Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility. Austen's work work does contain romantic elements however; mainly focuses on the preoccupation with character and personality. ]]> 2017-05-03 16:53:13 UTC https://padlet.com/bailey_axthelm/wonhqxr9ontp/wish/169735779 https://padlet.com/bailey_axthelm/wonhqxr9ontp/wish/169735812 Caleb, Juan, Bailey, Tanner
England worked under the ideals of laissez Faire which basically said that industry worked better without the government intervening. This time period was also known as the industrial revolution. No laws were in place to help protect the workers. There was no job protection which led to layoffs in the workplace. New equipment made it where people were being laid off. Riots called Luddite Riots took place and the people would go and destroy machinery. To battle with this, Parliament passed laws saying that it was illegal to destroy machinery and a person would be punished with death. Lord Byron spoke against the lack of laws and regulation. He sympathized with the common people. Taxes were put in place especially those on corn and it helped poor farmers but devastated the poor because food prices were so high. Labor unions were illegal at this time. One of the incidents was called the Peterloo Massacre where 11 people were killed.]]> 2017-05-03 16:53:17 UTC https://padlet.com/bailey_axthelm/wonhqxr9ontp/wish/169735812