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"Romanticism was a truly European phenomenon, extending roughly from the French Revolution to the 1848 revolutions and embracing not only literature and drama but also music and visual arts. Because of Romanticism's vast scope, most treatments have restricted themselves to single countries or to specific forms, notably literature, art, or music. This book takes a wider view by considering in each of six chapters representative examples of works-from across Europe and across a range of the arts-that were created in a single year. For instance, in the first chapter, focusing on the year 1798, Beethoven's Pathétique sonata, Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads, Tieck's novel Franz Sternbald's Wanderungen, and Goya's painting El sueño de la razón. The following chapters treat works from the years 1808, 1818, 1828, 1838, and 1848. This approach by "stages" makes it possible to determine characteristics of five stages of Romanticism in its historical and intellectual context and to note the conspicuous differences between these stages as European Romanticism developed-for example, the waxing and waning of religious themes, the shifting visions of landscape, the gradual ironic detachment from early Romanticism. In sum, the volume offers a unified vision of European Romanticism in all its aesthetic forms over the half-century of its growth and decline" -- Introduction 1: 1798 Beethoven, Grande Sonate Pathetique Wordsworth/Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads Brothers Schlegel, Athenaeum Tieck, Franz Sternbalds Wanderungen Goya, El sueno de la razon produce monstruos Findings 2: 1808 Beethoven, Symphony no. 5 in C Minor, op. 67 Fichte, Reden an die deutsche Nation Scott, Marmion Arnim/Brentano, Des Knaben Wunderhorn and Zeitung fur Einsiedler Kleist, Die Hermannsschlacht C. D. Friedrich, Tetschener Altar Digression: Goethe, Faust I Findings 3. 1818 Rossini, Mose in Egitto Lamartine, Saul Hoffmann, Die Serapionsbruder Mary Shelley, Frankenstein C. D. Friedrich, Wanderer uber dem Nebelmeer Findings 4. 1828 Schubert, Winterreise Scott, The Fair Maid of Perth Hugo, Cromwell Mickiewicz, Konrad Wallenrod Eichendorff, Ezelin von Romano Constable, Hampstead Heath, Branch Hill Pond Findings 5. 1838 Schumann, Kreisleriana Brentano, Gockel, Hinkel und Gackeleia Merimee, La Venus d'Ille Poe, "Ligeia" Delacroix, Medee furieuse Findings 6. 1848 Verdi, Il corsaro Dumas, La dame aux camelias Grillparzer, Der arme Spielmann Anne Bronte, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Spitzweg, Gnom, Eisenbahn betrachtend Findings Conclusions
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