The Hanoverian Dynasty and the Romantic Movement: A Historical Overview - Prof. 473, Apuntes de Cultura Inglesa

¡Descarga The Hanoverian Dynasty and the Romantic Movement: A Historical Overview - Prof. 473 y más Apuntes en PDF de Cultura Inglesa solo en Docsity! HANOVERIAN DYNASTY SO FAR. 2 ITS HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: 1660: end of Commonwealth and Restoration (House of Stuart). Charles II and James II. 1689: The Glorious Revolution; William of Orange (Dutch) + Mary (protestant daughter of James II) ruling together. 1702: Queen Anne (Mary’s sister) 1714: House of Hanover (descendants of William of Orange) THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT: The period goes from 1798 (publishing of Lyrical Ballads) to 1837 (crowning of Queen Victoria) 1789: “Sons of Innocence” William Blake. 1794: “Sons of Experience” William Blake 1798: “Lyrical Ballads” 1818: “Frankenstein” Mary Shelley 1819: “Ode to the West wind” an “England in 1819” by P.B. Shelley GEORGE I: (1714-1727) He spoke no English and did not even attend the meeting of Parliament. Birth of Prime Minister (The Whig Walpole). GEORGE II: (1727-1760) He succeeded his father and relied more and more on PM and gave him 10, Downing Street. GEORGE III: (1760-1820) The grandson of George II, he was the first Hanoverian king to be born in England and the first to speak English as his native tongue. As a king, he soon dismissed the PM and surrounded himself with incompetent ministers (“the King’s friends”). During his reign American colonies rebelled: they had to pay taxes but had no right to elect their members in Parliament (“no taxation without representation”- Boston Tea Party). Their rebellion culminated in the American revolution and declaration of Independence (signed in 1776 and recognised by the Treaty of Versailles in 1783). In 1811 he went permanently mad and Parliament declared his son Prince Regent. Regency fashion and architecture flourished. Architect Nash designed Regent Street and later Regent’s Park. In 1796 Prinny ( Prince Regent’s nickname) had bought a farm house in Brighton to be used for the new fashion of sea-bathing. Nash remodelled it as an Indian and Chinese fantasy: the Brighton Pavillion. To know more: when George III was crowned, during the ceremony, a jewel fell out of his crown. This is regarded as a for telling the loss of America. In 1761 George III married Princess Charlotte Mecklemburg Strelitz. Charlotte bears him 15 children, but this doesn’t prevent him from fathering 53 illegitimate children.