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Romantic Movement. A reaction against the Industrial Revolution, against the Enlightenment, against rationalism. Emphasized things that could not be explained: dreams, religion, fairy tales, folklore sleepwalking and hallucinations. Effected not only art but historiography, and education.
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Romantic Movement • A reaction against the Industrial Revolution, against the Enlightenment, against rationalism. • Emphasized things that could not be explained: dreams, religion, fairy tales, folklore sleepwalking and hallucinations. • Effected not only art but historiography, and education.
Sturm und Drang • “Storm and Stress” • German poetry • Rejected the influence of French Rationalism • Extremes of Emotion
Rousseau and Kant • Jean Jacques Rousseau • Preached freedom, emphasized nature • Thought artificial society corrupted • Immanuel Kant • Believed that Reason alone could not explain the existence of God • Categorical Imperative = Golden Rule
English Romantic Literature • Samuel Taylor Coleridge • The Rime of the Ancient Mariner • William Wordsworth • Lyrical Ballads • Lord Byron • Don Juan: Instead of DJ being womanizer, women seduce him. (Satire)
German Romantic Literature • Friedrich Schlegel • Lucinde • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • Faust: German folk story about a man who makes a deal with the devil. Gives up his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures.
Romantic Art • Neo-Gothicism and the Cult of the Middle Ages
Religion • Methodism • Revolt against Deism and Rationalism of the Church of England • Led by John Wesley • Stressed inward, heartfelt religion and possibility of Christian perfection in this life. • Emphasized emotional religious experiences • Religious Revivals
Culture • Johann Gottfried Herder • Rejected Mechanical explanations of nature • Societies, plants, people developed over time • Revived German folklore: led to collection of stories by the Brothers Grimm
History • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel • All periods and cultures in History are important because they led to now. • Dominant ideas = Thesis • Opposing ideas = Antithesis • Results of arguments = Synthesis
Islam and the Middle East • Revival of idea of Crusades • Thousand and One Nights • Thomas Carlyle: On Heroes and Hero-Worship • He gave Muhammad credit for being a hero and prophet. (Not exactly what Islam preaches)
Conclusion • Napoleon ended the Old Regime, instigated Nationalism, began the idea of total war and showed the power of citizen armies.