TTC【双语字幕版】：西方文明的基础（S02E25：浪漫之声）
Romantic and Romanticism
a sort of reaction against the Enlightenment and liberalism, emphasized feelings and emotional instead of reason and reform, first advocated by royalists against the middle class, and later embraced a radical reform and defended the working class
Edmund Burke 1729-1797
Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful, 1756
Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712-1778
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832
Johann Gottfried von Herder 1744-1803
William Wordsworth 1770-1850
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834
The Lyrical Ballads (regarded as the founding work of romantic poetry in England)
- an emphasis on content over form
- emotion and feelings are to be embraced and shared; human emotions over reason
- celebration of individuality; individual over the impersonal
- a yearning for the past; nature over the artificial
- celebration of nature; past over the present or future
Literature:
Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott, 1819
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, 1818
Les Miserables; Hunchback of Notre Dame; Cromwell, Victor Hugo, 1862
Paintings:
Jacques-Louis David 1748-1825
Eugene Delacroix 1798-1863
Caspar David Friedrich 1774-1840
J.M.W. Turner 1775-1851
Music:
Beethoven
Robert Schumann 1810-1856
Felix Mendelssohn 1809-1847
Franz Liszt 1811-1886
Richard Wagner 1813-1883
William Blake 1757-1827: Jerusalem, 1804-1820
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822: A Defense of Poetry
Most romanticists rejected society and its mores entirely; they lived unconventional lives; they welcomed the French Revolution as opposed to Edmund Burke; they wanted a complete regeneration of society and a radical change
Alessandro Manzoni 1785-1873
Aleksandr Pushkin 1799-1837
