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INTRODUCTION CONCEPTS - Periodization: division of history in chronological segments to make the study and classification of history easier. It is artificial and is created by scholars. Helps to analyze how context affects literature - Generation: Group of writers who follow a certain movement and share the same experiences due to coexisting at the same time. It is also a shared ideology. - Movement: Characteristics and ideas shared by a group of authors that does not follow chronology but statements. THE TURN OF THE CENTURY - Industrial and French Revolutions affected literature with its threats: new feelings and ideas - Industrial Revolution - idealization of nature, something greater than the city - run away from monotony, factories, danger, solitude - nostalgia: go back to a past where things were easier - Development of dystopian worlds - development of the middle classes - new ideas and roles - The drawing room: showing domesticity, lifestyle. Imitation of the higher classes to look respectable. - Women in the center of the domestic image: mother and caretaker - Technological changes: influence in the perception of the world - Accessibility of literature - Development of trai...