1. Romantic Writers Heros were mysterious, melancholoy and felt out of step with society, sometimes hid a guilty secret and faced a grim destiny. Examples: Johann Wolfgang and Alexandre Dumas Faust, Three Musketeers, The Hunchback of Nortre Dame.

2. Sir Walter Scott Johann Wolfgang Alexandre Dumas

3. Romantic Architecture Medieval Gothic style for buildings and the look of towns.

4. Romantic Art Capture the beauty and power of nature. Painted many subjects from peasants to knights to current events. Bright colors conveyed violent energy and emotion.

5. Eugene Delacroix-Liberty Leading the People Ah ah!

6. Romantic Music Inspired deep emotion. Traditional folk melodies glorified a nations past.

7. Frederic Chopin Used Polish peasant dances to convey the sorrows and joys of people living under foreign occupation.

8. First Orchestra! Took shape in the 1800’s.

9. Ludwig von Beethoven (1770-1827) First to use orchestra Wrote from the heatrt conveying intense emotional struggle. Admired Napoleon until he crowned himself emporer. Produced 9 symphonies total, an opera, and dozens of small pieces. 1798-Began to lose hearing. Died in poverty, angry and depressed.

10. Realism Attempt to represent the world as it was without sentiment. Artists were committed to reforming or improving the lives of the less fortunate.

11. Realist Literature Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist, Depicted crime and lives of the poor. Victor Hugo: Les Miserable, Depicted how hunger drove a man to crime. Emile Zola: Germinal, Depicted warfare in the mining industry.

12. Charles Dickens Victor Hugo

13. Realist Drama Henrik Ibsen: Doll’s House, Illustrates how women are caught in a straight jacket of social rules.

14. Realist Art Ordinary subjects, especially working class men and women.

15. Female Realists Charlotte Brontes-Jane Eyre Emily Brontes-Wuthering Heights Harriet Beecher Stowe-Uncle Tom’s Cabin Kate Chopin-The Awakening

16. Harriet Beecher Stowe Kate Chopin

17. Photography Louis Daguerre and William Fox Talbot produced first successful phtographs. Stiff portraits of the middle class or prominent people. Later used to expose slums and social ills. Matthew Brady-Exposed civil war corpses on the battlefield.