Chapter 12     Romanticism: Nature, Passion, and the Sublime

Heralds of Romanticism

Napoleon Bonaparte

Hegel

“absolute mind”

dialectic

Charles Darwin

natural selection

The Origin of Species

“social Darwinists”

William Wordsworth

Lyrical Ballads

Wolfgang von Goethe

Faust

Mary Shelley

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

the Gothic novel

Transcendentalism

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Henry David Thoreau

Walt Whitman

free verse

alliteration

assonance

Leaves of Grass

Abolitionist Literature

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Frederick Douglas

Sojourner Truth

Francisco Goya

The Third of May 1808: The Execution of the Defenders of Madrid

Brave Deeds Against the Dead

Théodore Géricault

The Raft of the "Medusa"

Eugène Delacroix

Liberty Leading the People

Romantic Architecture

Neomedievalism

Romantic Music and Dance

Ludwig van Beethoven

Frédéric Chopin

The Romantic Ballet

Marie Taglioni