Chapter 21: Romantisism Flashcards
Concert of Europe
The quadruple alliance (Britain,Prussia, Russia, Austria) and later France as well
Used to maintain what the congress had set up, battled against revolution
Congress of Vienna
A meeting to arrange a final peace settlement after Napoleon’s defeat
Klemens von Metternich
Leader of the congress of vienna
Austrian foreign minister
Experienced diplomat
Arrogant
Edmund Burke
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
Joseph de Maistre
French conservative
Influential spokesman for counter revolutionism and wanted restored hereditary monarchy
wanted to avoid revolution
Monroe Doctorine
Enacted by President James Monroe
Guaranteed the independence of Latin America and warned against further european invasion force
Greek Revolt
Was allowed to happen by the great alliance
Wanted control of government in greece
Peterloo Massacre
11 people killed by government calvary when a crowd of 60,000 demonstrators were attacked
The Corn Laws
Placed by the toris
Placed extraordinarily high tariffs on foreign grain
British Tories and Whigs
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
William Pitt the Younger and William Wilberforce
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Carbonari
Secret societies motivated by nationalist dreams
Germanic Confederation
A group of german states in what was the holy roman empire
Burschenschaften
Student societies dedicated to fostering a goal of a free and united Germany
Nationalist
Classical Economics
Economic liberalism
Laissez-faire
State should not interrupt the free economic forces especially supply and demand
Thomas Malthus
Wrote Essay on the Principles of Population which stated that nature controls the population and humans shouldn’t fight the cycle
David Ricardo
Wrote Principles of Political Economy which stated that the rise and fall of wages spurred the continuance of the rise and fall of population
John Stuart Mill
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
Utopian Socialism
Against private property and competitive industrial capitalism
Wanted a better enviroment
Charles Fourier
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
Robert Owen
Also believed that humans natural goodness would be revealed in a cooperative environment
His experiment succeeded in Scotland but not the US
Flora Tristan
Preached the liberation of women
Absolute equality
Utopian socialist
French July Revolution of 1830
And uprising after the strict rule of Charles X that replaced him and began the bourgiouse monarchy
Frankfurt Assembly
A German assembly used to attempt to make a united Germany that fulfilled the dreams of liberals and nationalists
Giuseppe Mazzini
Dedicated italian nationalist who founded the organization Young Italy to bring about a united Italy
Romanticism
Intution, feeling, emotion, imagination, sentiment and inner feelings were the sources of knowing
Goethe
Wrote The Sorrows Of The Young Werther in which the main character is a romantic figure
The Brothers Grimm
Historical focused writings
Collections of local fairy tales
Sir Walter Scott
wrote Ivanhoe
Had historical context
Neo-Gothic
New form of gothic
Made by romanticism
Mary Shelley
Wrote Frankenstein
Was a gothic literature piece
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Advocated atheism
Wrote Prometheus Unbound about a revolt of humans against the laws and customs that oppress them
Lord Byron
Romantic heroism
Wrote Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
William Wordsworth
Was a big nature poet that really connected to nature and wrote about mystical things
Caspar David Friedrich
Preoccupation with nature and god
Left a feeling of mystery/mysticism
Believed in painting with your “spiritual eye”
Joseph Mallord Willard Turner
Obsessed with nature
Painted using moods not realism
Eugene Delacroix
Fascinated with the exotic and had a love for color
Believed “a painting should be a feast to the eye”
Theatricality with movement
Ludwig von Beethoven
Transitioned from classics to romantic
Used his music to express his innermost feelings
Used uncontrolled rhythm to show feelings
Chateaubriand
wrote the Genius of Christianity also know as the Bible of Romanticism
Used sentiment
