HIS 102 WEEK 5: ROMANTICISM
Reading Assignment for the week:
- Read the appropriate chapter in the
textbook (chapter 22 in the 7th or 6th ed. of Perry).
- Read the samples of Romantic
poetry (You may wish to participate in an Online Discussion of this reading.).
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Listen to some further information about Romanticism
as a Realaudio file
or as a wav file. You can also read the information as
a txt file.
Questions to
Consider while studying this week's material:
- What were the distinctive
features of nineteenth-century conservatism and liberalism?
- How did the Romantic movement
differ in various areas of Europe?
Key Terms to study
while reading the textbook:
- Romanticism
- Lord Byron
- William Wordsworth
- John Stuart Mill
- Edmund Burke
Suggested Websites for further study:
- For extra credit please suggest to your instructor a
relevant website for this unit of the course. Send the title of the site, the url and a
brief explanation why you find the information interesting and applicable to
the material being studied this week.
Submit the Article Abstract:
Your assignment this week is the article
abstract, a long paragraph in which you summarize the contents of an
article from a major historical journal. The abstract should concisely
summarize the contents of the article, indicate the author's
thesis and follow the specific abstract style requirements. Please understand
that you are not being asked to evaluate the contents of the article.
The article
that you choose to summarize must be at least ten pages in length and cannot
refer to American history. Some suggested journals for articles
include: American
Historical Review, Journal of European Economic History, Journal of the
History of Ideas, Journal of Modern History, Journal of Social History,
Past and Present, Russian Review and Slavic Review. If
you have any doubts about a selection, please contact me.
You must review the additional
Article Abstract Information that
includes some journal locations (including
online options), sample abstracts and
the required style requirements for this assignment. Please note that your
abstract must include a complete bibliographic citation
at the top left of the page.
This assignment should be sent by e-mail according to the Electronic Submission
Information instructions.
Please remember to consult
Charlie's History Writing Center for
specific information on the writing requirements of this course.
You may also wish to post or respond in the
Blackboard online discussion forum
for this assignment. Please review the instructions for
Using the Blackboard
Discussion Forums, if necessary.
The Article Abstract is worth a maximum of
50 points.
Notes:
Simultaneously with the Industrial Revolution
in the West, a new artistic movement occurred that had its origins in the
emotions unleashed by the French Revolution. Romanticism was a reaction
to the rationalism of the Enlightenment and also a response to the rationalism of factory
life in the new industrial
world. Romantics advocated a back-to-nature movement and turned to the
irrational human spirit for
inspiration, not cold, logical science. It is rather strange that Romanticism found
its fullest expression in the work of a series of English poets in the
early nineteenth century. But there were also Romantics in
other artistic forms (music and art) and in every country in Europe.
There were at least six important English
Romantic poets: William Wordsworth, 1770-1850; Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
1772-1825; Lord Byron (George Gordon), 1788-1819; Percy Shelley, 1792-1822;
John Keats, 1795-1821; and William Blake, 1757-1827. In 1798 Coleridge
and Wordsworth published a collection of poetry with the title, Lyrical
Ballads. The preface of the volume came to be regarded as the manifesto
of the Romantics, and in it, Wordsworth and Coleridge argued for the power
of the poet, e.g., that poetry was the source of all truth.
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