The romantics

• what is romanticism?


  a movement which covers a range of developments in art, lit, music and philosophy
• when was romanticism?


  late 18th and early 19th cen
• what did jean-jacques rousseau declare?

  man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains
• what is a core part of romanticism?

  rebelliousness, dissatisfied intellectuals and artists challenged the establishment
• what do the romantics emphasise?

  the importance of the individual, people should follow ideals rather than imposed rules, denouncing the exploitation of the poor, expressing authentic personal feelings
• what did the romantics feel was their duty?

  to use their poetry to inform and inspire others and change society
• what is a big idea in romanticism?

  nature
• romanticism is precisely situation in choice of subject, nor in exact truth, but in a way of feeling - charles baudelaire
• politically it was inspired by the revolutions in america and france, emotionally it expressed an extreme assertion of the self... together with the sense of the infinite and transcendental - check slides
• importance attatched to individuals and their particular creative talents
• subjectivity: a strongly personal viewpoint, was valued highly sometimes at the expense of science
• what was the subjective view elevated to?

  spiritual, quasi-religious significance which was a threat to established religion
• romanticism aquired greater value at the time because nature was just beginning to be threatened by urbanisation and industrialisation
• time-honored codes of morality were questioned
• worship of nature