Romantic Era
Read this excerpt from The Romantic Era by Steven Kreis. Take notes on the reading, circling important statements and making notes in the margins. Be sure to look up any unfamiliar words. On a separate piece of paper, answer the following questions. These questions should be answered completely and in complete sentences, using evidence from the text to support your answer. In addition to turning in these questions on Monday, you will also be given a quiz on this material.
1. What are the Romantic traits that Kreis discusses? Describe as many as you see.
2. How does the Romantic era differ from the Enlightenment?
There were direct, immediate and forceful events that many ...
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discrepancy in the quality of their experience. Great European events, such as the Revolution and Napoleon, gave identity to generations and made them feel as one -- a shared experience. As a consequence, the qualities of thought and behavior in 1790 was drastically different from what it was in 1820. In the Romantic era, men and women felt these temporal and experiential differences consciously and intensely. It is obvious, I suppose, that only after Napoleon could the cults of the hero, of hero worship and of the genius take full form. And only after 1815 could youth complain that their time no longer offered opportunities for heroism or greatness -- only their predecessors had known these opportunities.
For the Romantics, Nature was natural -- and this supplied standards for beauty and for morality. The Enlightenment's appreciation of Nature was, of course, derived wholly from Isaac Newton. The physical world was orderly, explicable, regular, logical. It was, as we are all ...
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in common with one another. Society, then, became an object of science. Society revealed self-evident truths about human nature -- self-evident truths about natural rights.
Social and political thought was individualistic and atomistic. As the physical universe was ultimately machinelike, so social organization could be fashioned after the machine. Science pronounced what society ought to become in view of man's natural needs. These needs were not being fulfilled by the past -- for this reason, the medieval matrix and the ancient regime inhibited man's progress. The desire was to shape institutions, to change men and to produce a better society -- knowledge, morality and human ...
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