World History: Lesson 34: Nineteenth Century Art Artist • ROMANTICISM : Roughly 1750 – 1850; Art designed to provoke a strong emotional response and to celebrate man as a creature of warm emotions rather than of cold logic; A rejection of the new science and reason of the Industrial Revolution; Often promoted • Gathered anthologies of Germanic folk tales • Published Grimms’ Fairy Tales beginning in 1812, with regularly updated editions every few years as they gathered more stories • Developed the “Byronic hero” which would become a hallmark of Romantic literature – a dark, brooding, and often violent hero who still has the ability for doing good and loving deeply • English novelist • Student of Lord Byron • Wrote Frankenstein • Charlotte: Wrote Jane Eyre • Emily: Wrote Wuthering Heights • Anne: Wrote Agnes Grey • French • Wrote Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame • French • Wrote The Three Musketeers, The Man in the Iron Mask, and The Count of Monte Cristo • American • Wrote The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip van Winkle • Perfected the short story as a serious genre • American • Wrote The Scarlet Letter • Wrote largely on man’s tendency to sin, resulting in his work being called “dark romanticism” • American • Wrote Moby Dick • Focus was primarily on sea yarns • American • Wrote many poems and short-stories in the horror genre: The Raven, The Black Cat, The Cask of Amontillado, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Tell-Tale Heart • German • Composer of 9 full symphonies as well as various other pieces • Highly experimental in his music, defying established classical conventions • Continued to compose music even after he had gone completely deaf • Polish • Most of his works are etudes for the piano • Much of his work celebrated his Polish heritage