Conservatism in Politics and the Romantic Turn

Question 1

conservatism

Answer 1

Conservatism is a cultural, social, political philosophy and ideology, seeks to promote and preserve traditional institutions, customs, and values.

Question 2

William Wordsworth

Answer 2

known for Lyrical Ballads, co-written with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and The Prelude, a Romantic epic poem chronicling the “growth of a poet’s mind.”

Question 3

Edmund Burke

Answer 3

supported Catholic emancipation, the impeachment of Warren Hastings from the East India Company,
opposed to the French Revolution.

Question 4

Germaine de Stael

Answer 4

a prominent philosopher,
woman of letters,
political theorist in both Parisian and Genevan intellectual circles

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Joseph du Maistre

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defended the absolutist legacy and the close alliance of throne and altar. He thought the Revolution and the republic it created in the name of reason and individual rights had failed.

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Sir Walter Scott

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Scottish author who is often considered the inventor and one of the greatest practitioners of the historical novel.

Question 7

Klemens von Metternich

Answer 7

Foreign Minister of Austria between 1809 and 1848
the country’s Chancellor from 1821 to 1848

Question 8

Ludwig van Beethoven

Answer 8

German composer and pianist.
one of the most revered figures in the history of Western music;
wrote symphony no 9 composed between 1822 and 1824. It was first performed in Vienna on 7 May 1824

Question 9

romanticism

Answer 9

an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century.

Question 10

Caspar David Friedrich

Answer 10

a German Romantic landscape painter,
considered the most important German artist of his generation.
best known for his allegorical landscapes, which typically feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic ruins.