CHANGES IN BRITAIN
The Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions of the XVIII century changed the society, from rural to urban and industrialised.

 
NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES People left farms and went to towns to work in factories, but here they lived in inhuman conditions without hygienic servicies.

 
ROMANTICS By the end of the century poets and artists reported this dehumanisation because they were against the exploitation of the individual.

 
THE WORD ROMANTIC This word comes from the French word for medieval epic sagas,roman.Initially it meant exaggerated, but then it was used to descibe emotions.

 
ROMANTICISM It was a European movement. In Germany it was essentially philosophic, in France revolutionary, in Italy political and in England literary.

 
PRE-ROMANTICISM The new cultural sensibility had already emerged in the latter part of the XVIII century in Europe.

 
Pre-Romanticism in France In France the philosopher Jean Jaques Rousseau exalted man's emotional capacities

 
Pre-Romanticism in Britain The new Romantic sensibility first emerged in the macabre fantasies of Gothic novels and in the melancholic spirit of theGraveyeard poets.

 
Pre-Romanticism in Germany Here the STURM und DRANG movement, led by Goethe, Herder and Schiller considered Nature as man's true spiritual environment.