Cultural Heritage II

Romanticism and Nationalism

 

Napoleon Defeated but Europe is Destabilized (1814):

 

 

Congress of Vienna (1814-1815):

 

 

            Metternich (1773-1859; Austrian):

 

 

            Legitimacy:  

 

 

            Stability:

 

 

France:

 

 

Redrawing the Boundaries:  

 

 

Great Britain, Prussia, Russia, and Austria:

 

 

                        The Portrait and Cultural Change

 

 

United States Response:

 

 

 

Conservatism:

 

 

 

 

Liberalism:

 

 

 

 

Nationalism:

 

The Shift from the Age of Reason (Enlightenment) to the Age of Emotion (Romanticism): consider Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol (1843).

 

 

 

Timeline:

 

 

 

 

The Romantic Artist:

 

 

 

Romanticism

 

 

 

            Causes:

 

 

 

            Characteristics: 

 

 

 

            Sensibilities:     

 

 

                        Sublime:

 

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Kubla Khan (1797)

 

 

Love:

 

Lord Byron, “She Walks in Beauty” (1814)

 

 

Terror:

 

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818)

 

 

 

 

                       

And, of course, Mixed Emotions (Venn Diagram the above):  Consider the “Creature” in Frankenstein

 

 

 

Romanticism and Nationalism, both can be conservative and liberal

 

 

 

 

Linkage of Romanticism, Evangelical Christianity, and 19th-Century Reform Movements such as Abolitionism. 

 

 

 

1848, The Year of Revolutions:

 

 

 

 

 

Discussion?: Do you consider yourself a romantic?  Or are you more of a realist?  Consider the kinds of movies and books you like.  On what terms do you conduct your personal relationships?