| Term | Definition |
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| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | one of the greatest figures of Western literature, wrote "The Sorrows of the Young Werther" , focused on the heroic genius that succeeds in spite of society, wrote "Faust" which was the first work to portray the Devil as the gentleman Mephistopheles |
| Grimm Brothers | collected and published local German fairy tales, work is example of Romantic German nationalism |
| Romantic era | about 1815 to 1848, reaction against rationalism of Enlightenment, YOUR interpretations, religious nature, UNIQUE individual |
| English Romanticism | anti Industrialization |
| William Wordworth | English poet,NATURE, co wrote "Lyrical Ballads" that icluded a manifesto for the "new poetry" and began Romantic age in poetry |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | wrote "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", loved water |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | English poet, son of a member of the House of Lords, felt that less gifted didn't recognize his brilliance, wrote "Prometheus Unbound" which was about people revolting against oppression, and wrote "Hymn of Apollo" |
| Victor Hugo | wrote "Les Miserables" which criticized the French Revolution |
| Alexander Dumas | wrote "The Three Musketeers" and "The Man in the Iron Mask" which criticized Louis XIV |
| Thomas Carlyle | British writer, stressed that historical events were determined by the deeds of heroes that transformed society |
| Edgar Allan Poe | writer of "Gothic literature", examples of his work are "The Raven," "Tell Tale Heart," etc |
| Mary Shelley | wrote "Frankenstein" which was a criticism of man controlling nature, "Gothic literature" |
| Lord Byron | dramaticized himself as a Romantic hero in his "Childe Harold's Pigrimage" |
| neo-Gothic architecture | the revival of medieval Gothic architecture left European countrysides adorned with pseudo-medieval castles and cities with grand neo-Gothic buildings, example is Britain's House of Parliament |
| Theodore Gericault | paintings of Napoleonic soldiers and shipwrecks, painted "Portrait of an Officer of the Chasseurs Commanding a Charge" which critized the domination of nature and was probably about the French invasion of Russia, also painted "The Rft of the Medusa," "Man Clutching a Horse in Water" |
| Eugene Delacroix | greatest of the Romantic painters, paintings of historic or dramatic scenes, intense color, most significant painting is "Liberty Leading the People" which supported the July Revolution, Louis Philippe, and nationalism |
| Classical Liberalism | foundation is Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations," bourgeois, the government should only protect borders,currency,and rights, the market place solves public ills |
| Thomas Malthus | classical liberal, wrote "Essays on the Principles of Population" which said that nature checks the population, and the gov't shouldn't interfere because its part of the natural cycle |
| David Ricardo | classical liberal, wrote "Principles of Political Economy" which said that there was an iron law of wages |
| problems with Classical Liberalism | increased poverty and illness, disparity between the rich and poor because of the caste system, foundational issues may lead to revolution, distribution of wealth unequal, change must occur or revolution |
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