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Romance Schmomance

Romance Schmomance. What’s the Big Deal?. Romanticism. An artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850. Important Writers. British. Other European.

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Romance Schmomance

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  1. Romance Schmomance What’s the Big Deal?

  2. Romanticism An artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.

  3. Important Writers British Other European Johann Wolfgang von Goethe E.T.A. Hoffman Alexandre Dumas Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand Alexander Pushkin • William Wordsworth • Samuel Taylor Coleridge • William Blake • John Keats • George Gordon, Lord Byron • Percy Bysshe Shelley • Walter Scott • Robert Burns

  4. Visual Artists and Musicians • Caspar David Friedrich • Phillip Otto Runge • William Blake • Francisco Goya • Eugene Delacroix • John Martin • Franz Schubert • Ludwig van Beethoven • Hector Berlioz • Giuseppe Verdi • Wolgang Amadeus Mozart • Joseph Haydn • Richard Wagner • Robert Schumann • Frederic Chopin • Franz Liszt

  5. Origins • Reaction against: • Industrial Revolution: urbanization, factories • Age of Enlightenment: reason, individualism, scientific method • Valued emotion, a return to nature, mysticism, horror, awe,folk art. “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.” William Wordsworth

  6. Discussion • Based on your knowledge of literature, art, music, or just life in general, what influence do you think Romanticism had and/or why was it important?

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