The Influence Of The French Revolution On Romanticism
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The literature of a country is affected and influenced by how the
people of that country live. This paper will prove that The French
Revolution greatly influenced 19th Century French Romanticism. First, the
cultural values of the revolution will be identified. Then, the different
aspects of Roman ....
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.... the society in which
it was produced, restrained. Society was divided into privileged and
unprivileged classes, (Leinward 452) with Eighteenth- century writers
focusing on the lives of the upper class. (Thompson 857) These writers
followed "formal rules"(Thorlby 282), and based their works on scientific
observations and logic (Thompson 895).
The Revolution gave the common people and writers more freedom to
express feelings and stimulated them to use reason. According to Thompson ....
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