The Romantic Period Flashcards
Exoticism and nationalism are major themes of _____.
Romanticism
Of all of the intellectual and artistic movements that came out of the 19th century, _____ is
perhaps the one that influenced the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries to the greatest extent.
Romanticism
The Romantic movement’s burst of expression in the arts encompassed numerous themes that were not shackled to the dichotomy of _____ and _____.
religious faith, rational science
Rapid advances in technology during the _____ Period led to a dramatic shift of productivity in England, which was later called the _____.
Romantic, Industrial Revolution
Goethe deliberately places German _____ themes and images on par with _____ ones in Faust
folkloric (nationalist), classical
The Byronic hero, as fashioned by Lord Byron and his legions of followers, was presented as something of an _____ who openly and flagrantly questioned the norms and traditions of their time.
anti-hero
_____ states that reality is a mental construct, and therefore, the only knowledge we have of the world is knowledge of our mental experiences.
Idealism
According to _____, society and social institutions ultimately corrupt individuals, stripping them of their natural freedom. They believe that people must become free and _____ by returning to nature.
transcendentalists, self-reliant
The _____ philosophers overtly rejected the particularly rigid philosophical and spiritual ideals put forth during the Enlightenment and instead embraced a more spiritual, irrational view of both the world and knowledge.
Romantic
While Enlightenment philosophers focused on attempting to uncover _____ facts about the world, Romantic thinkers highlighted the _____ of how individuals experience the world.
objective, subjectivity
In his work Thus Spoke Zarathustra, _____ rejects the traditional idea of _____ truth and instead frames truth as something that a particular perspective must always create.
Friedrich Nietzsche, objective
_____ is widely considered to be a founding father of transcendentalism, which became a legitimate cultural and philosophical movement following his publication of _____.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature
Meaning to be characterized by attack on cherished beliefs or institutions.
iconoclastic
Romantic literary themes included:
- a movement away from rationalism to embrace the _____
- a focus on the superiority of _____
- a contemplation of the divine or higher _____ purpose
- a focus on the _____ and introspection
imagination
nature
moral
self
_____ is one of the foundational English Romantic poets.
William Wordsworth
His collection of poems, Lyrical Ballads (1798), written with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, contains some of the most influential poems in Western literature. Many of these articulate the beauty of nature.
William Wordsworth
_____ (1795-1821) also ranks among the core Romantic poets and is best known for his poetry, including “Ode on a Grecian Urn.”
John Keats
His most famous work is the epic novel Moby Dick
Herman Melville (1819-1891)
His seminal work, Leaves of Grass (1856), contains “Song of Myself,” in which he expressed his personal connection to diverse aspects of humanity.
Walt Whitman
She became a respected author in her own right with her novel Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
_____ (1818-1895) became the most visible African American abolitionist of the era through his eloquent speeches and the publication of The Narrative of the Life of _____, an American Slave (1845)
Frederick Douglass
Edgar Allan Poe is often considered the quintessential writer for _____ literature during the Romantic Era
Gothic
Romantic painters used _____ colors. Rapid, expressive, _____ brushstrokes were used to evoke emotions
brighter, visible
Romantic sculptures created heroic and e____ figures
expressive
