HUMA 1170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Industrial Revolution
9 Dec 2015
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Genius means something all people have, force in your individuality. American , 1803 1882: credited as first significant american writer, wanted americans to be self reliant, didn"t want americans to act like europeans, be yourself emerson. Romanticism is not opposed to these, but believe we are more than that a reaction against enlightenment and scientific industrial revolution reason, freedom, progress, and nature as object of knowledge and control. We are also emotional. , unconscious, and affected by our personal cultural. Nature is a trigger for aesthetic, emotional, psychological, and spiritual histories experience. Sublime requires the human experience in the event: how nature has changed him, rise of the term genius. You shall therefore lay up these words of mine in your heart between your eyesand you shall write them upon the doorposts of your house and upon your gates (deutruronomy 11: 18-20: biblical passage of jewish prayers to god.
