ROMANTICISM
Greg St. Arnoldにより
1. Questions
1.1. Was there experimentation with drugs among Romantics? (Grand Tour)
2. Goya
2.1. Spanish - depicted horror of life under Napoleon
2.1.1. largely influenced by Napoleon's conquest of Prussia
3. Eugene Delacroix
3.1. Liberty Leading the People
3.2. The Death of Sardanapalus
3.2.1. depiction of harem; orientalism
4. Theodore Gericault
4.1. Raft of the Medusa
5. Nathaniel Hawthorne
5.1. Scarlet Letter - dark, explores themes of alienation, sin; differs from American optimistic impulse
6. Henry David Thoreau
6.1. Walden: seeds of libertarianism
7. Romaticism > Marxism > Communism > Cold War
8. Wordsworth, Coleridge: English romantic poes
9. Fichte
9.1. "submersion of individual to the whole (Volk) leads to Freedom"
9.1.1. seeds of fascism
10. Goethe
10.1. Sorrows of Young Werther
11. Sir Humphrey Davy
12. Jean Jacques Rousseau
12.1. Rousseau's Confessions - documents his journey across the Alps
12.1.1. Rousseau
13. Schiller
13.1. The Robbers
14. Immanuel Kant
14.1. Kant's idealism - emphasizes subjectivity of knowledge
14.1.1. Foreshadowing post modernism?
14.2. Kant's sublime - gives us sense of our limits and mortality, but we are delighted by being a safe distance away
14.2.1. Edmund Burke: beauty vs. the sublime