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Audio:
Recommended Reading:
- Powerpoint presentation
- The art of Jacques-Louis David
- Complete text of works discussed in the lecture:
- Boswell’s Life of Johnson
- Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
- Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads
- Goethe’s Faust and The Sorrows of Young Werther
- Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
- Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe and Rob Roy
- Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre
- Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights
- Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables
- Complete text of works discussed in the lecture:
- Boswell’s Life of Johnson
- Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
- Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads
- Goethe’s Faust and The Sorrows of Young Werther
- Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
- Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe and Rob Roy
- Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre
- Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights
- Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables
Neoclassicism and Romanticism – Quiz
- Identify the major characteristics of Neoclassicism.
- Identify three major British Neoclassical authors.
- Identify the major characteristics of Romanticism.
- Identify at least three Romantic poets/playwrights.
- Identify at least three Romantic novelists.
- Balance, symmetry, influence of Enlightenment and the classics
- Alexander Pope; Samuel Johnson; Jane Austen)
- Subjectivity, emotion, pro-religion, nostalgia for the past, love of nature, tampering with established artistic forms
- Johan Wolfgang von Göthe, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, John Keats
- Johan Wolfgang von Göthe, Sir Walter Scott, Mary Shelley, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Victor Hugo, James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving