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Romanticism - Coggle Diagram
Romanticism
Literature
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Wordworth & Coleridge publish "Lyrical Ballads", the "manifesto" of romanticism
essays spread radical/revolutionary ideas (feminism, freedom...)
new novel genres: gothic (Mary Shelley), of manners (Jane Austen), historical
Goethe's "Sorrows of the young Werther" glorifies abandonment to feelings, irrational love and suicide (most famous novel of the era)
Rousseau publishes a book On Education, praising the natural ingenuity and spontaneity of children against the oppressing minset of adults during the industrial revolution
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Philosophy
Wordsworth and Coleridge celebrate the role of nature against technology and mechanization,
Words. speaks up for the natural simple life
rationality and neoclasicism are discredited, impulses and feelings are our only authentic perceptions
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After Chatterton's suicide begins the glorification of "romantic heroes": rejected, doomed sensitive artists
Nature tales the place of religion as a source of truth and feelings
Men are impotent against the power of nature
History
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reaction against industrialization, urbanisation and consumerism in favor of nature, irrational and feelings
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Industrialization has widened the gap between poor and rich and represents capitalist greed for money
Art
Goya's painting "Sleep of reason" emphasizes the helplessness of fragile humans against all that is irrational
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