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The landmark work that marked the birth of the Romantic movement was:
Lyrical Ballads
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Which Romantic was not British, but German?
Friedrich
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Wordsworth's perception of nature as sublime was most closely echoed in the paintings of:
C.W. Turner
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Transcendentalism:
valued intuition and self-reliance
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Which characteristics describe the Romantic personality?
- Often experiences "the spontaneous overflow of feelings."
- Is a champion of life and liberty.
- Cultivates the world of imagination.
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Painters of the Sublime often viewed nature as:
an awesome power that is overwhelming
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Constable's paintings usually focus on:
everyday life
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In his Diary, Napoleon places great emphasis on the power of:
imagination
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Prometheus was a favorite fictional hero because:
he defied the Greek gods
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Pushkin's general attitude toward Napoleon was:
admiration for his heroic actions
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In My Bondage and My Freedom, Douglass confesses that he stole food:
on the grounds of morality
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The protagonist in Goethe's Faust is:
a scientist with an unlimited thirst for knowledge
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein parallels the tragedy of which mythological hero?
Prometheus
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What tragic ending does Goethe's Young Werther meet?
He commits suicide.
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In Wagnerian opera, a leitmotif is:
a musical phrase used to identify a particular person, object or idea
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Which Romantic artist created a series of prints focusing on the brutality and horror of war?
Goya
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Gros' works depicting Napoleon are considered:
a means of propaganda focusing on the heroism of Napoleon
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19th-century American architectural structures such as the Smithsonian Museums in Washington and portions of the Harvard and Yale campuses reflect the period's interest in:
Medievalism
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In Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People, the "people" does not include:
the aristocracy
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Cordier's African and Nash's Royal Pavilion were expressions of nineteenth-century:
exoticism
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John Stuart Mill argued that, traditionally, men have wanted women to be:
devoted to submission and meekness
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The new historicists brought critical and controversial study to the field of:
religious history
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In the Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels envision as the new ruling class:
the proletariat
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In Ibsen's Doll's House, Nora leaves Torvald because:
she wishes to stand alone and make her own decisions
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The artist who said "Show me an angel and I'll paint one" was:
Courbet
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Daumier's "Third Class Carriage" emphasizes the:
dehumanizing reality of travel for the poor
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