The Triumph of Romanticism, Chapter 19

Question 1

Characteristics and time period of Romanticism?

Answer 1

Reaction against the ideas of the enlightenment, imaginAtion was used to perceive the world instead of reason, interested in folk lore, folk songs, and fairy tales, plus interested in dreams, hallucination s and sleepwalking because it showed there was more to the world they saw around them 1762-1841

Question 2

What kind of architecture,literature and art did romantics like?

Answer 2

Medieval times because it represented a time of simplicity and stability

Question 3

What is the Sturm and Drang movement?

Answer 3

Storm and Stress, rejected the influence of French rationalism on German literature

Question 4

What two writers provided the intellectual foundations for Romanticism? And what did they raise questions about?

Answer 4

Immanuel Kant and Jean Jacque Rousseau+ whether rationalism that was dear to philosophers was sufficient to explain human nature and be the main principle for organizing human society

Question 5

What did Rousseau claim had corrupted human nature?

Answer 5

Society and material prosperity

Question 6

What did Rousseau write? Date?

Answer 6

Emile 1762

Question 7

What ideas did Emile discuss?

Answer 7

How an Individual could lead a good and happy life uncorrupted by society, difference between children and adults and children should be raised with maximum freedom, different gender roles for women and men, open education

Question 8

What two pieces did Immanuel Kant write and what were the dates?

Answer 8

The Critique of Pure Reason (1781) The Critique of Practical Reason (1788)

Question 9

What ideas did Kant’s pieces discuss?

Answer 9

Accept rationalism of Enlightenment but preserve human freedom and belief in God and immortality, noumenal v. phenomenal, categorical imperative

Question 10

What is the categorical imperative?

Answer 10

All people are born with a moral conscious and mortality of the means not the consequences

Question 11

What did Samuel Tyler Coleridge contribute to the ideas of Romanticism?

Answer 11

ImaginAtion was God doing work in one’s mind, Rime of Ancient Mariner (guilt, punishment, salvation)

Question 12

What did William Wordsworth contribute to the ideas of Romanticism?

Answer 12

Ode on Intimations of Immortality (maturation had caused him to lose his his childlike imagination), ideas about pre-existance, The Prelude (growth of poet’s mind)

Question 13

What did Wordsworth and Coleridge write together and what is it?

Answer 13

Lyrical Ballads 1798, manifesto of new poetry that rejected the rules of the 18th century

Question 14

What did Lord Byron offer to the Romantic era?

Answer 14

Child’s Harold’s pilgrimage (1812) Don Juan (1819)

Question 15

What did Ludwig Tiek write and what ideas did it discuss?

Answer 15

William Lovell, love and imagination versus cold hard reason

Question 16

What did Frederich Schlegel write and what ideas did it discuss?

Answer 16

Lucinda 1799, attacked Rousseau’s ideas about women, portrayed women as heroic, friendly, equal to males and sexy

Question 17

What two pieces did Johann Wolfgang von Goethe write? And what ideas did they discuss?

Answer 17

The Sorrows of Young Werther, emphasis on feeling 1774
Faust, poem in two parts about a man who makes a deal with the devil for knowledge goes on a series of adventures and decided to devote life to humankind which breaks the pact and he goes to heaven

Question 18

What is John Constable known for painting

Answer 18

Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows and the Hay Wein

Question 19

What is William Turner known for painting?

Answer 19

Rain Storm and Speed, The fighting Temeraire

Question 20

What is Caspar David Friedrich known for painting?

Answer 20

The Polar Sea Wanderer of the sea of fog and Man and Women contemplating the moon

Question 21

What are characteristics of Romantic Art?

Answer 21

Idealized rural life, mysterious and unruly sides of nature, sublime

Question 22

What is sublime?

Answer 22

Subjects from nature that aroused strong emotion and questioned how much control we have of our lives

Question 23

Romantic and Neo-Gothic architecture characteristics and notable monuments or buildings?

Answer 23

Modern imitations of medieval style buildings, Castle of Neushwenstein in southern Germany, British Houses of Parliament

Question 24

How did Methodism begin and what are some characteristics of it?

Answer 24

Middle 18th century, John Wesley was inspired by Moravians,began to preach in open fields in western England, began to organize Methodist society’s with his brother, took off in America, people were tired of denial and Methodism stressed inward heartfelt religion with a possibility of Christian perfection

Question 25

What is The Genius of Christianity?

Answer 25

1802 by Viscount Franco’s Rene de Chateaubriand, called the Bible of Romanticism discusses the ideas that essence of religion is passion, and foundation= emotion and sacraments inspired in the heart of a christian

Question 26

Johann Herder’s contributions to Romanticism and German Culture?

Answer 26

On the Knowledge and Feeling of the Human Soul, rejected reasonable explanation of nature believe society’s grew organically like plants, Grimm Brothers and revival of interest in history and philosphy

Question 27

George Willhelm Friedrich Hegel’s views on the conflict of ideas and his contributions to the study of History?

Answer 27

Ideas develop in an evolutionary form and must involve conflict, thesis-antithesis-synthesis, all periods of History are equal because without them the world would not be the same, all cultures are valuable because they contribute to humankinds development

Question 28

What two pieces did Hegel write?

Answer 28

The Phenomenology of mind 1806, Lectures on the philosophy of History 1822

Question 29

What did Eugene Delacroix paint?

Answer 29

Liberty Leading the People

Question 30

What did Theodre Gericault paint?

Answer 30

The Raft of Medusa

Question 31

What did Fransico Goyen paint?

Answer 31

The Third of May