The Age of Romanticism

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The Age of Romanticism

• Presented by
• Mr. Danz

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The Age of Romanticism

• Romanticism a movement that influences social
  and political life in Europe toward the end of
  the 18th century
• Those who adopted this philosophy rejected
  science and reason (logic) and accepted nature,
  emotion, and individual experience.

Emotion
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Continued

• This newly established line of thinking inspires
  a movement for freedom.
• More emphasis on the rights of common folk.

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Roots in the Enlightenment

• Enlightenment valued science and reason
• Romanticism shifts from valuing science and
  reasoning and moves toward nature, emotion, and
  individual experience.

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French Revolution

• Ends feudalism in France
• France becomes a republic
• New constitution merges
• Also gives birth to the REIGN OF TERROR

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Rise and Fall of Napoleon

• New republic spreads ideas of French Revolution
• Napoleon Bonaparte (a general) self-crowned
  emperor of France in 1804
• Napoleon wanted to conquer all of Europe
• Many forces unite against Napoleon to spoil his
  plans

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Struggle for Independence

• Due to the ideas that came about from the French
  Revolution, many European nations began movements
  for gaining their freedom.
• Some were successful some were not.

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Revolution in Industry

• Social and political revolutions in France and
  other European countries - things were different
  in Great Britain.
• Industrial Revolution eventually improves
  standards of living, but causes problems in early
  1800s.
• Unsafe working conditions
• Child labor
• Unhealthy urban living conditions.

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Philosophy

• Arthur Schopenhauer rejects reason and logic
  We experience the world through senses.
• This mindset inspired artists, writers, composers

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Painting

• Landscapes were common
• Best know artists John Constable and J.M.W.
  Turner
• Emphasis on nature and surroundings

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Literature

• Emphasis on imagination, emotion, nature, and the
  individual
• Best known William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor
  Coleridge, Victor Hugo, and Johann Wolfgang von
  Goethe
• All explored human emotion in their work.

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Music

• Music dealt with individuality, emotion, and
  originality
• Beethoven bridges gap between classical and
  Romantic periods in music.
• Personal feeling is incorporated in the music.

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END of LESSON

• TIME to move on to something else.