LOS AMIGOS HIGH SCHOOL
AP EUROPEAN HISTORY
Unit
XV: THE ROMANTIC AGE (1780-1830)
Piano Sonata
No. 14 In C-Sharp Minor (Moonlight), Op. 27, 1st movement by Ludwig van
Beethoven
Romanticism
LITERATURE
(* Not in Flash-Cards)
*The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel
Kant
*The Critique of Practical Reason by
Immanuel Kant
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
*The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
*Lyrical Ballads by Samuel Taylor
Coleridge and William Wordsworth
*Don Juan by Lord Byron
*Lucinde by Friedrich Schlegel
*The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
*The Genius of Christianity by Viscount
Fran�ois Ren� de Chateaubriand
Lectures on the Philosophy of History by
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
GUIDED READING QUESTIONS:
- In what ways was Romanticism, in its various
manifestations, a reaction against much of the
thought of the
Enlightenment?
- What were the common characteristics shared by the writers
and artists who, despite national
differences,
contributed to the Romantic movement?
- Which two writers are said to have provided the immediate
intellectual foundations for
romanticism?
- What did romantic writers draw from Rousseau? Describe Rousseau's view on the
development of
the individual as set forth in his novel �mile (1762).
- Describe the basic philosophy of Immanuel Kant. What is the "categorical
imperative," and
what was its
role in Kantian philosophy? How
did Kantian philosophy reject the narrowness
of Enlightened
rationality?
- Describe William Blake's conception of the art of poetry.
- What are the subject and theme of Coleridge's poem, the
Ancient Mariner?
- Describe how the process of human maturation, according to
Coleridge and Wordsworth,
impacts human
imagination?
- What was Goethe attempting to portray in his novel Faust?
- In what ways was John Wesley's Methodism a revolt against
deism and rationalism in the
Church of
England?
- What was the basic character of the Roman Catholic revival
in France which followed the
Thermidorian
Reaction?
- How did the writings of Schleiermacher promote religious
toleration?
- How and why did Johann Gottfried Herder attempt to promote
the development of a unique
German
culture?
- Describe the process by which, according to Hegel, ideas
have developed throughout history.
What are the
implications of Hegel's theories on the study of history and world cultures?
PEOPLE:
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Immanuel Kant William Blake
Samuel Taylor Coleridge William Wordsworth Lord Byron
Friedrich von
Schlegel Johann Wolfgang von Goethe John Wesley
Friedrich Schleiermacher Johann Gottfried
Herder Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Mary Shelley Victor Hugo Ludwig van Beethoven
IMAGES:
The Wanderer in the Mist by Caspar David Friedrich
The Raft of the Medusa by Theodore G�ricault
Liberty Leading the People by Eugene Delacroix