Chapter 21: Romantisism Flashcards

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Concert of Europe

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The quadruple alliance (Britain,Prussia, Russia, Austria) and later France as well
Used to maintain what the congress had set up, battled against revolution

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Congress of Vienna

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A meeting to arrange a final peace settlement after Napoleon’s defeat

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Klemens von Metternich

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Leader of the congress of vienna
Austrian foreign minister
Experienced diplomat
Arrogant

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Edmund Burke

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Wrote Reflections on the Revolution in France as a reaction the the French Revolution especially radical republican and democratic ideas
Conservatist
Against violent revolution but not against change

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Joseph de Maistre

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French conservative
Influential spokesman for counter revolutionism and wanted restored hereditary monarchy
wanted to avoid revolution

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Monroe Doctorine

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Enacted by President James Monroe

Guaranteed the independence of Latin America and warned against further european invasion force

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Greek Revolt

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Was allowed to happen by the great alliance

Wanted control of government in greece

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Peterloo Massacre

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11 people killed by government calvary when a crowd of 60,000 demonstrators were attacked

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The Corn Laws

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Placed by the toris

Placed extraordinarily high tariffs on foreign grain

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British Tories and Whigs

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Toris- supported old parliament that was unfair due to inconsideration of industrial revolution population changes
Whigs- supported by new working middle class wanted a new parliament
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William Pitt the Younger and William Wilberforce

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Carbonari

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Secret societies motivated by nationalist dreams

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Germanic Confederation

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A group of german states in what was the holy roman empire

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Burschenschaften

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Student societies dedicated to fostering a goal of a free and united Germany
Nationalist

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Classical Economics

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Economic liberalism
Laissez-faire
State should not interrupt the free economic forces especially supply and demand

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Thomas Malthus

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Wrote Essay on the Principles of Population which stated that nature controls the population and humans shouldn’t fight the cycle

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David Ricardo

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Wrote Principles of Political Economy which stated that the rise and fall of wages spurred the continuance of the rise and fall of population

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John Stuart Mill

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Wrote On Liberty and On the Subjection of Women

He stood for liberty of the individual that is uncensored and stood for women’s equal rights

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Utopian Socialism

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Against private property and competitive industrial capitalism
Wanted a better enviroment

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Charles Fourier

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Wanted to create ideal society model by putting 1,620 people in a community working together for a mutual benefit
His idea wasn’t tested due to finances

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Robert Owen

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Also believed that humans natural goodness would be revealed in a cooperative environment
His experiment succeeded in Scotland but not the US

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Flora Tristan

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Preached the liberation of women
Absolute equality
Utopian socialist

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French July Revolution of 1830

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And uprising after the strict rule of Charles X that replaced him and began the bourgiouse monarchy

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Frankfurt Assembly

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A German assembly used to attempt to make a united Germany that fulfilled the dreams of liberals and nationalists

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Giuseppe Mazzini

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Dedicated italian nationalist who founded the organization Young Italy to bring about a united Italy

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Romanticism

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Intution, feeling, emotion, imagination, sentiment and inner feelings were the sources of knowing

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Goethe

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Wrote The Sorrows Of The Young Werther in which the main character is a romantic figure

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The Brothers Grimm

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Historical focused writings

Collections of local fairy tales

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Sir Walter Scott

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wrote Ivanhoe

Had historical context

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Neo-Gothic

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New form of gothic

Made by romanticism

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Mary Shelley

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Wrote Frankenstein

Was a gothic literature piece

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Advocated atheism

Wrote Prometheus Unbound about a revolt of humans against the laws and customs that oppress them

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Lord Byron

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Romantic heroism

Wrote Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

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William Wordsworth

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Was a big nature poet that really connected to nature and wrote about mystical things

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Caspar David Friedrich

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Preoccupation with nature and god
Left a feeling of mystery/mysticism
Believed in painting with your “spiritual eye”

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Joseph Mallord Willard Turner

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Obsessed with nature

Painted using moods not realism

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Eugene Delacroix

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Fascinated with the exotic and had a love for color
Believed “a painting should be a feast to the eye”
Theatricality with movement

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Ludwig von Beethoven

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Transitioned from classics to romantic
Used his music to express his innermost feelings
Used uncontrolled rhythm to show feelings

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Chateaubriand

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wrote the Genius of Christianity also know as the Bible of Romanticism
Used sentiment