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Romanticism: Rejecting the Enlightenment. By Susan Pojer Horace Greeley High School Chappaqua, NY. How Was Romanticism a Rejection of the Enlightenment?. Emotions, passion, and irrationality The “rugged” individual The power and fury of nature The Gothic
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Romanticism: Rejecting the Enlightenment By Susan Pojer Horace Greeley High School Chappaqua, NY
How Was Romanticism a Rejection of the Enlightenment? • Emotions, passion, and irrationality • The “rugged” individual • The power and fury of nature • The Gothic • The exotic, the occult, and the macabre • Nationalism • Exotic foreign lands
A Growing Distrust of Reason Early19th Century Enlightenment Romanticism Societyis good, curbing violent impulses! Civilization corrupts! The essence of human experience is subjective and emotional. Human knowledge is a puny thing compared to other great historical forces. “Individual rights” are dangerous efforts at selfishness & the community is more important.
1. Emotions! Passion! Irrationality!
2. The "Rugged" Individual
3. The Power & Fury of Nature
The Eruption of Vesuvius – John Martin
4. The Gothic: "Romanticizing" the Middle Ages
5. The Exotic, the Occult, and the Macabre!
Cloister Cemetery in the SnowCaspar David Friedrich, 1817-1819
Liberty Leading the People Eugène Delacroix, 1830 Detail of the Musket BearerDelacoix, himself
Napoleonat theSt. BernardPass David,1803
7. Interest in Exotic Foreign Lands