The Romantic Movement in English and American Literature

Ⅰ The Appearance of Romantic Lite-ratureThe Romantic Movement in Eng-lish literature came into being as anew trend at the turn of tlie 18th and19th centuries.It was flowering dur-ing the first half of the 19th centuryin America.During this period,the class con-tradiction and national contradictionwere extremely acute in Europe.In1789,the French Revolution broke out,,which overthrew the feudal power.As a result of this,a new bourgeois