HIST 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Sentimentality, Autocracy, Culottes
23 Mar 2016
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25 ys of fr revoluionary wars and napoleonic campaigns how they fundamentally changed landscape of eu. Age of ideology all isms formed in shadow of napoleon (conservaism, liberalism, feminism, romanicism) Prd ater napoleon all of eu"s leader desp to make eu look back to how it was before fr revoluion. Napoleon eventually gone, great comeback from exile ulimately met w/ inal victory in waterloo. Spirit of revoluion and everything napoleon stood for remained, although he was no longer in power ater 1815. One of most powerful books of the age. Swiss tech genius who creates human-like monster in pursuit of scieniic knowledge wants to know more about how things work, wants to master nature. Being so scary, unearthly, ends up destroying master and all of frankenstein"s world. Dr. can"t trap creaion, ends w/ monster hunched over creator"s death bed. Shelley daughter of mary wollstonecrat (vindicaion of the rights of women) V supporive of revoluion (had to lee terror)
