Romantyzm industrialny: XIX stulecie i postęp cywilizacyjny. Pytania, odpowiedzi, projekt

Abstract

The article is the introduction to the monograph on industrial Romanticism and the influence of civilisational, technological, and scientific changes on literature and the arts. Research on the subject was conducted by a team of Romanticism theorists from the Universities in Białystok and in Opole. The research was summarised during the International Scientific Conference “Romantyzm industrialny. Artystyczne przeobrażenia obrazu świata: 1795–1864. Człowiek – technika – natura” [Industrial Romanticism. The Artistic Transformations of the Image of the World: 1795–1864. Man – Technology – Nature]. The conference was held in the Baroque Palace in Rybna in Silesia, which is the region where coal mining originated (the participants went underground to visit the historical mine “Guido” in Zabrze). The author emphasised that the monograph is only a starting point for further research on the influence of science, technology, and civilisational progress on the literature and art of the late Age of Enlightenment and Romanticism.