From Enlightenment to Romanticism : anthology / edited by Ian Donnachie and Carmen Lavin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Donnachie, Ian L.

Lavin, Carmen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.

History.

Manners and customs.

Intellectual life.

Europe--Intellectual life--18th century--Sources.

Europe.

Europe--Intellectual life--19th century--Sources.

Europe--Social life and customs--18th century--Sources.

Europe--Social life and customs--19th century--Sources.

France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Influence--Sources.

France.

Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821--Influence.

Napoleon.

Romanticism--Europe.

Romanticism.

Genre:

Sources.

Physical Description:

2 volumes ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press ; Milton Keynes, U.K. : In association with The Open University : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2003.

Summary:

This is the second of two anthologies designed to accompany the Open University course From Enlightenment to Romanticism, an interdisciplinary exploration of the changes and transitions in European culture between c. 1780 and 1830. The collection of extracts in this anthology provides primary sources on industry and changing landscapes, new forms of knowledge, new conceptions of art and the artist, and the exotic and the Oriental. Each selection is accompanied by a detailed introduction explaining the context and significance of the sources. Extracts in the anthology stimulate questions rather than providing reassuring answers, and offer vital insights into the major events, movements and personalities of the time. This volume provides an invaluable resource for all students of European culture in the period. A companion volume offers readings on the death of the Old Regime, the Napoleonic phenomenon, and slavery, religion and reform.

Contents:

Part I Industry and changing landscapes 1

The Lake District 1 The Picturesque, the Beautiful and the Sublime 3

extracts from A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful / Edmund Burke 6

Reading (A) On Beauty (i) 6

Reading (B) On Beauty (ii) 7

Reading (C) On the Sublime 9

extracts from A Guide to the Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire / Thomas West 14

Reading (B) Windermere 18

Reading (C) Rydal Falls 19

Reading (D) Keswick 19

Reading (E) Borrowdale 20

extracts from Observations, relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, Made in the Year 1772, On Several Parts of England; particularly the Mountains, and Lakes of Cumberland, and Westmoreland / William Gilpin 22

Reading (A) Tourism as 'proper' amusement 23

Reading (B) The 'general face of the country' 23

Reading (C) England as picturesque landscape 27

Reading (D) Mountains 30

Reading (E) Lakes 36

Reading (F) Windermere 41

Reading (G) Keswick 45

Reading (H) Figures in the landscape: 'picturesque appendages' 51

Reading (I) The manners of the country 52

extracts from Essays on the Picturesque, as compared with the Sublime and the Beautiful and, on the Use of studying Pictures, for the Purpose of Improving Real Landscape / Uvedale Price 55

The Tour of Dr Syntax in search of the Picturesque, a Poem, with Thirty-One Illustrations by Thomas Rowlandson / William Combe 60

Canto I 61

extract from Northanger Abbey / Jane Austen 65

The Lake District 2 Into the Romantic: Wordsworth and the Lakes 67

extract from an unsigned review of Robert Southey's Thalaba, 1802 / Francis Jeffrey 71

The Lake School of Poetry / William Hazlitt 73

Wordsworth and the Lakes School / Thomas De Quincey 75

The Minstrel; or, The Progress of Genius / James Beattie 76

The Task / William Cowper 78

An Evening Walk / William Wordsworth 80

'The Sublime and the Beautiful' / William Wordsworth 83

'There was a Boy' / William Wordsworth 85

Note to 'There was a Boy' / William Wordsworth 86

'There is an Eminence' / William Wordsworth 87

Two extracts from The Prelude / William Wordsworth 88

'Airey-Force Valley' / William Wordsworth 90

extracts from A Guide Through the District of the Lakes in the North of England, with a Description of the Scenery, etc. for the use of Tourists and Residents / William Wordsworth 91

Reading (A) The 'visual interest' of mountains 91

Reading (B) The 'margins of these lakes' 93

Reading (C) Mountain tarns 96

Reading (D) The woods 97

Reading (E) The 'most intense cravings for the tranquil, the lovely, and the perfect' 98

Reading (F) Cottages 99

Reading (G) The 'profanation' of the landscape 100

Reading (H) Respecting 'the spirit of the place' 104

Reading (I) A sense of stability and permanence 105

A New View of Society / Robert Owen 107

Part II New forms of knowledge 145

Science as public culture 147

Introductory Discourse on Chemistry / Humphry Davy 148

Conversations on Chemistry / Mrs Jane Marcet 158

Conversation I On the General Principles of Chemistry 160

Conversation VI On the Chemical Agencies of Electricity 168

Conversation VIII On Hydrogen 176

Sir John Soane 188

Extract from Crude Hints towards an History of my House in L[incoln's] I[nn] Fields, 1812 189

Extract from George Soane (attrib.), 'The present low state of the Arts in England, and more particularly architecture', The Champion, 10 September 1815 194

Extract from George Soane (attrib.), 'The present low state of the Arts in England, and more particularly architecture', The Champion, 24 September 1815 195

Extract from descriptions of Soane's House written by Mrs Barbara Hofland and added to Soane's Description of the Residence of Sir John Soane Architect, 1835 197

Part III New conceptions of art and the artist 203

Two conceptions of art 205

Extract 1 from David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature 206

Extract 2 from Jean Le Rond D'Alembert, Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopaedia 207

Extract 3 from Novalis, Miscellaneous Observations 210

Extract 4 from Novalis, Logological Fragments II 211

Extract 5 from Wilhelm Wackenroder, Concerning Two Wonderful Languages and Their Mysterious Power 212

Extract 6 from Wilhelm Wackenroder, How and in what manner one actually must regard and use the Works of the Great Artists of Earth for the Well-Being of his Soul 216

Extract 7 from Friedrich Schlegel, Critical Fragments 219

Extract 8 from August Wilhelm Schlegel, Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature 220

Extract 9 from Friedrich Schlegel, Athenaeum Fragments 229

Extract 10 from Wilhelm Wackenroder, The Marvels of the Musical Art 230

Extract 11 from August Wilhelm Schlegel, Lectures on Belles-lettres and Art 234

Goethe, Faust Part One 236

Weimar and the Germans / Madame de Stael 237

Goethe / Madame de Stael 238

Faust, A Fragment / August Wilhelm Schlegel 239

Faust, A Fragment / Friedrich Schlegel 241

Goethe, Faust Part One 242

Two souls speech 244

Translation speech 245

Goethe, Faust Part Two 247

Faust's last speech 247

Last lines 249

Schubert's Lieder: settings of Goethe's poems 250

A Selection of Schubert's Lieder and Scores / Franz Schubert 251

Heidenroslein (Wild Rose) 251

Wandrers Nachtlied II (Wanderer's Night Song II) 252

Harfenspieler I (The Harper's Songs I) 252

Gretchen am Spinnrade (Gretchen at the Spinning-wheel) 253

Erlkonig (The Erl-King) 254

Prometheus 256

Ganymed (Ganymede) 257

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, III / Lord Byron 259

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto the Third, 1816 / Lord Byron 260

Cantos I and II. Preface to Childe Harold's Pilgrimage / Lord Byron 303

From a letter sent from Sir Walter Scott to the Earl of Buccleuch 306

Letters sent by George Gordon, Lord Byron in the summer of 1816 309

The Field of Waterloo, 1815 / Sir Walter Scott 317

Confessions (completed 1770, published posthumously 1782) / Jean-Jacques Rousseau 334

from his review of Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, III, in the Quarterly Review / Sir Walter Scott 337

Part IV The exotic and oriental 345

The Royal Pavilion at Brighton 347

The Absentee / Maria Edgeworth 348

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 1822 / Thomas De Quincey 355

Kubla Khan / Samuel Taylor Coleridge 357

Essay in The London Magazine, June 1821 / William Hazlitt 360

Contemporary reactions to the Royal Pavilion at Brighton 364

The Journal of Eugene Delacroix 369

The Jewish wedding, extract from The Journal of Eugene Delacroix 369.

Notes:

"... designed to accompany the Open University course From Enlightenment to Romanticism ..."--Introd.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0719066700

0719066719

0719066735

OCLC:

52876909