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Romanticism: Rejecting the Enlightenment By Susan Pojer Horace Greeley High School Chappaqua, NY

How Was Romanticism a Rejection of the Enlightenment? Emotions, passion, and irrationality The “rugged” individual The power and fury of nature The Gothic The exotic, the occult, and the macabre Nationalism Exotic foreign lands

A Growing Distrust of Reason Early 19th Century Enlightenment Romanticism Society is good, curbing violent impulses! Civilization corrupts! The essence of human experience is subjective and emotional. Human knowledge is a puny thing compared to other great historical forces. “Individual rights” are dangerous efforts at selfishness & the community is more important.

1. Emotions! Passion! Irrationality!

Wandering Above the Sea of Fog Caspar David Friedrich, 1818

Lady Macbeth - Henry Fuseli, 1794

2. The "Rugged" Individual

The Dreamer Gaspar David Friedrich, 1835

Solitary Tree Caspar David Friedrich, 1823

3. The Power & Fury of Nature

The Deluge Francis Danby, 1840

The Eruption of Vesuvius – John Martin

4. The Gothic: "Romanticizing" the Middle Ages

Eldena Ruin Gaspar David Friedrich, 1825

British Houses of Parliament 1840-1865

5. The Exotic, the Occult, and the Macabre!

Cloister Cemetery in the Snow Caspar David Friedrich, 1817-1819

Saturn Devours His Son Francisco Goya, 1819-1823

6. Nationalism

Liberty Leading the People Eugène Delacroix, 1830 Detail of the Musket Bearer Delacoix, himself

Napoleon at the St. Bernard Pass David, 1803

The Shooting of May 3, 1808 Francisco Goya, 1815

7. Interest in Exotic Foreign Lands

The Bullfight - Francisco Goya

The Royal Pavillion at Brighton John Nash, 1815-1823