The Industrial Revolution and Romanticism

The industrial Revolution and the romanticistic Spirit The Industrial Revolution refers to a series of significant shifts in tralatitious practices of agriculture, manufacturing, and transportation, as well as the development of new mechanical technologies that took place between the late eighteenth and 19th centuries in much of the Western world. During this time, the United Kingdom, as well as the detain of atomic number 63 and the United States soon after, underwent drastic socio-economic and cultural changes during this time.These changes in part gave maturate to the English Romantic spirit, peculiarly in the United Kingdom. During the late 18th carbon, the United Kingdoms economic system of manual and animal base labor shifted toward a system of machine manufacturing while more readily navigable roads, canals, and railroads for trade began to develop. go power underpinned the dramatic increase in production capacity, as did the rather sudden development of metallic eleme nt tools and complex machines for manufacturing purposes.The Industrial Revolution had a profound effect upon society in the United Kingdom. It gave rise to the working and middle classes and allowed them to overcome the long-standing economic oppression that they had endured for centuries beneath the gentry and nobility. However, while employment opportunities change magnitude for common working people throughout the country and members of the middle class were able to become billet owners more easily, the conditions workers often labored under were brutal.Further, many of them were barely able to live off of the salary they earned. During this time, the industrial factory was created (which, in turn, gave rise to the modern city). Conditions within these factories were often dirty and, by todays standards, wrong children were frequently used and abused for labor purposes and long hours were required for work. A group of people in the United Kingdom now as the Ululated felt tha t industrial enterprise was ultimately inhumane and took to protesting and sometimes sabotaging industrial machines and factories.While industrialization led to incredible technological developments throughout the Western world, many historians now argue that industrialization also caused severe reductions in living standards for workers both within the United Kingdom and throughout the rest of the industrialized Western world. However, the new middle and working classes that industrialism had established led to arbitration throughout industrial cultures, drastic population increases, and the introduction of relatively new economic system known as capitalism.The Romantic Movement developed in the United Kingdom in the wake of, and in some quantity as a response to, the Industrial Revolution. some(prenominal) English intellectuals and artists in the early 19th century considered industrialism inhumane and abnormal and revolted?sometimes quite violently?against what they felt to b e the increasingly inhumane and unnatural mechanization of modern life. Poets such as Lord Byron (particular in his addresses to the House of Lords) and William Blake (most notably in his poem The Chimney Sweeper) spoke out?and wrote extensively bout?the psychological and social affects of the Sailor uniform resource locator http//www. Layer. Org/ courses/engaged/ The Sailor Foundation Sailor. Org Page 1 of 2 newly industrial world upon the person and felt rampant industrialization to be entirely counter to the human spirit and intrinsic rights of men. Many English Romantic intellectuals and artists felt that the modern industrial world was harsh and deadening to the senses and spirit and called for a return, both in life and in spirit, to the emotional and natural, as well as the ideals of the pre-industrial past. Sailor universal resource locator http//www. Sailor. Org/courses/engaged/ Page 2 of 2