Romanticism

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Social Contract; believed society an materialism corrupted human nature; believe man was a ‘noble savage’ in state of nature

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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1724-1804; bridge between enlightenment and romanticism; helps establish philosophy separate from religion

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Immanuel Kant

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Storm and stress; use by German romantics in 1770s and 1780a conveying emotional intensity

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Sturm and drang

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leading figure in German idealism; came up with dialectic

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George William Friedrich Hegel

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initial idea is challenge by an opposing view and results in hybrid of two ideas

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Dialectic

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produces works of poetry called lyrical ballads; most influential works of English literature; view nature as mysterious force from which the poet can learn; one of most well known poems is ‘Titern Abbey’

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Wordsworth

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produces works of poetry called lyrical ballads; most influential works of English literature; view nature as mysterious force from which the poet can learn; well known poem is’The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’

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Coleridge

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romantic writer; died in Greek War

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Lord Byron

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‘Prometheus Unbound’; died young; had been married to the woman who wrote Frankenstein

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Percy Shelley

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influenced by Herder; evidence how German romanticism and nationalism tie together; preserving songs, stories, and sayings of German culture

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Grimm’s Fairy Tales

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considered greatest of romantic novelist; writes ‘Sorrows if the Young Werther’; Wrether personified the (tragic) romantic hero whose rejection by a girl resulted in his suicide; also wrote Faust, a retelling of old story; Faust is a guy who sells soul to gain all knowledge; made fun of enlightenment

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Misérables; likes using fantastical characters and strange settings; plays up emotion

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Victor Hugo

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1774-1840; mystical view of sublime power of nature; ‘Wanders Above the Mist’; ‘The Dreamer’; ‘Tree of Crows’; ‘The Cathedral’ ; ‘Abbey in the Oak Forest’

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Caspar David Friedrich

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1769-1863; most famous romantic painter; likes exotic, dramatic use if color; ‘Greece on the Ruins of Misslonghi’; ‘Liberty Leading the People’; ‘Massacre of Chios’

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Eugene Delacroix

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Natures power and terror; Painted lots of ships and land and seascapes

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J.W.M. Turner

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Quiet peaceful rural landscapes with humans at one with their environment; Haywaine

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John Constable

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comes from medieval era; gothic revival

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British Houses of Parliament

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Transitional figure between classical and romantic eras; first person to have Inner human emotion through music

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Ludwig van Beethoven

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Piano influenced by polish folk songs and dances from Poland

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Frédéric Chopin

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Hungarian; First great piano virtuoso

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Franz Liszt

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Bohemian music

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Anton Dvořák

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Italian opera composer; Considered one of the top two opera singer/composer; Closely associated with Italian nationalism

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Giuseppe Verdi

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German opera writer; Does all kinda of opera based on German myths and legends; Tied in with German nationalism

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Richard Wagner

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Russian composer; Does symphonies and ballets; Uses Russian folk music

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Peter Tchaikovsky

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example is British Houses of Parliament

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Gothic revival architecture

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Industrialization aided by science will bring a new wondrous age in Europe; He’s at the beginning of the industrial revolution; Talks about parasites and doers and that you should improve the conditions of the poor

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Henry de Saint-Simon

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Practical; Said you should have universal suffrage and take control peacefully; Wanted workshops and factories run by governments

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Louis Blanc

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Write what is property; Answer is it’s the profits stolen from laborer and its the source of all wealth; Considered an anarchist.

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Pierre Joseph Proundhon

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Wanted a planned economy and socialist communities; Had utopian societies that were mathematically planned; Believed in the emancipation of women

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Charles Fourier

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Wrote condition of the working class in England; said they were murders and robbers

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Karl Marx

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Invented Marxism and he called it scientific socialism

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Friedrich Engels

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1848; Marxs idea; Considered the bible of communism; Lays out his theory called dialectical materialism; Blueprint for socialist revolution

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The Communist Manifesto

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Economic Interoperation of history; Class struggle; Theory of surplus values; Socialism is inevitable; Violent revolution; Dictatorship of the proletariat; Creation of a classless society

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Dialectical materialism