HUM 2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Mary Shelley, Pantheism, Fairy Tale
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B. american and english transcendentalism: wordsworth, the world is too much for us : p338. Subject: calm of nature vs stress of society. Nature as guide to innocence vs corrupted society. C. nature in visual arts: bierstadt, among the sierra nevada mountains p340. Panoramic views of nature to create awe and wonder. Victory through the feminine principle. (c/c passive women in david"s, the oath of the horatii : bartholdi, statue of liberty, (1884) feminine symbol of democratic values, freedom rather than peace. Romantic irony: goya, third of may, 1808: the execution of the madrilenos (1814) (p336): Common spaniards as martyrs do their culture (note the stigmata in the hands of the man in the lighted center); contrast the unemotional, uniform cruelty of the. Romantic architecture: barry and pugin, the houses of parliament, 1860 (p341): neo-gothic style. Nostalgic for medieval society and its values vs neo-classical (greek and roman architecture and values).
