Historical Summary of Romantic Age
The age (1798-1832) started with the William Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads. Wordsworth’s new idea of writing made a great change in subject and style of literature. In lieu of elite people, common people and common language were preferred. The highlighted events of this age were:
1.The French Revolution which motto was: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity and after this revolution class distinction in society became diminished.
2. Industrialization blocked the opportunity for small business.
3. The invention of machines magnified the extraction of coal and the iron from mine.
4. The conventional social structure started changing.
5. Trains and Ships were used in transportation due to the invention of steam engines.
6. Religious rights were observed properly because of Catholic Emancipation Act in 1829.
7. Slums, child labor, and labor problems were the bad effects of industrialization.
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