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

         I.C.E.:

"Sturm und Drang"

 

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 Franois 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?

 

         Unit XV Reading Quiz #9 - due F 23 Feb

 

         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 Gricault

 

Liberty Leading the People by Eugene Delacroix