Victorian revivals:

Question 1

What was the 19th C like?

Answer 1

Degredation of landscape, rapid industrialization, overcrowding, child labor. Great divide between rich and poor

Question 2

medieval revival was…

Answer 2

a form of escapism, a reaction to the present. Part of romanticism

Question 3

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Answer 3

(1712-1778), founded the romantic philosophical movement (emotion as a conduit to learning)

Question 4

Empiricism

Answer 4

knowledge through sensory experiences

Question 5

rationalism

Answer 5

I think therefore I am, realm of forms

Question 6

Cogito ergo sum

Answer 6

I think therefore I am

Question 7

Augustus Pugin

Answer 7

(1812-1852) Architect, believed the medieval revival was not just aesthetic (could improve society)

Question 8

Charles Delheim

Answer 8

defines medievalism as social language composed of myths, legends, rituals and symbols, appropriated by Victorians to criticize and affirm own times

Question 9

John Keats

Answer 9

(1795-1821), Wrote La Belle Dame Sans Merci
Medievalism in literature, introducing arthurianesque tale of chivalry

Question 10

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Answer 10

(1809-1892), poet loreate of Great Britain and Ireland. wrote lady of shallot. Ardent proponent of Medievalism