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| | | | | Humanities in the Western Tradition , First Edition
Marvin Perry, Baruch College, City University of New York, Emeritus
J. Wayne Baker, University of Akron
Pamela Pfeiffer Hollinger, The University of Akron
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Chapter 20: Age of Romanticism: A New Cultural Orientation
- What political and cultural ideologies emerged in the wake of the French
Revolution? What were the basic tenets of each? What relationship did they
have to each other and to Romanticism?
- What were the aims of the Congress of the Vienna? How successful were
European governments in realizing those aims? What is the significance of
the year 1848?
- What are the basic principles of Romanticism, and how did they differ
from those of the Enlightenment? How did those differing principles shape
thinkers' views concerning Nature, feeling, the imagination, God, and history?
- What philosophical and literary forms did Romanticism take in Germany?
What did Goethe contribute to German Romanticism?
- Who were the leading English Romantic poets? What are their major works,
and what Romantic values do those works express?
- What are the characteristics of the Gothic novel? Who were the leading
Romantic novelists of England and France? What are their major works, and
what themes do they explore?
- How did a distinctively American literature develop during this period?
What were the historical circumstances of that development? Who were the principal
authors? What are their major works, and what thematic concerns do those works
explore? What was Transcendentalism, and what role did it play in the development
of American literature?
- How did Romantic painting develop? Who were the leading painters in Britain
and France? What are their most notable works, and how do those exemplify
both their personal styles and broader Romantic ideals?
- How did sculpture and architecture develop during this period? Why did
the Gothic Revival style become especially popular in Britain and America?
- What are the basic characteristics of Romantic music? What new forms
and techniques did Romantic composers develop, and how did they typically
use them?
- Who were the leading Romantic composers? For what innovations are they
best known? What are their most memorable works, and what stylistic elements
do those works display?
- What impact did Romanticism have on modern Western civilization?
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