History 1265 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cup-Bearer, Germaine De Staël, English Landscape Garden
28 Sep 2016
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Topics: culture transfer, poets and thinkers , music: the german art, fatherland of forestry. Arndt represents a powerful reaction against that french influence. The english garden less refined and less laid out, as a nod to nature. Writer: why do germans have no seaside? . Soon afterward, seaside resorts were made, after the english model: many historians have said there are three big revolutions in europe: the english. Industrial revolution, the french revolution, and the german reading revolution: rich in thoughts, weak in deeds. Poets and thinkers : germaine de stael, wrote a book on germany , germans invented printing, whatever we have in one hand, we have a book in the other hand , romanticism. Reaction to the enlightenment and the dominant rationalism of the late 18th century. Emphasizes emotion rather than pure reasons (heart over the head) Mystery and the uncanny (filled with ghosts, doppelgangers, and mysterious presences) Enlightenment preferred nature to be manicured and ordered, whereas.
