Romanticism as Opposition and Affirmation

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Romanticism asOpposition and Affirmation

• Denham, HUM251
• Spring 06

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announcement Remember that the midterm will be
in class on Friday, February 24, the last class
day before spring break.
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Jacques Louis David (1748-1825)The Death of
Marat (1794)
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Jacques Louis David (1748-1825)Bonaparte
Crossing the Alps at Grand-Saint-Bernard (1801)
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Jacques Louis David (1748-1825)Madame Récamier
(1800)
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Louis-Leopold Boilly (1761-1845)A Game of
Billiards (1807)
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Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841)Dom über
einer Stadt Cathedral above a City (1813, 1830)
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Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840)Gartenlaube
The Arbor (1818)
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Johann Friedrich Dahl (1788-1857)Morgen nach
einer Sturmnacht Morning after a Storm, (1819)
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Theodore Gericault (1791-1824)The Raft of the
Medusa (1819)
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William BlakeSongs of Innocence and Experience
(1789, 1794)
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William Blake
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aesthetic oppositions

• classicromantic
• mechanicalorganic
• picturesqueplastic
• French classicismShakespeare, Calderon
• classicalgothic
• timelesstime-bound

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more aesthetic oppositions

• novel (romance)poetry (epic)
• poetry of perfectionpoetry of infinite
  desire
• innocenceexperience (Blake)
• globalnational worldlocal
• wakingdreaming

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social oppositions

• monarchicdemocratic
• high expression folk idiom
• blood (ancestry, ethnic identity)class

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some affirmers

• Johann Wolfgang v. Goethe
• Gottfried Herder
• Friedrich Hölderlin
• Friedrich Schiller
• Heinrich von Kleist

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affirmations

• individualism
• liberty
• revolution
• renewal
• rebirth

• nationalism
• chauvinism
• racism
• totalitarianism
• fascism

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Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840)Wanderer above
the Sea Fog (1818)