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The Humanistic Tradition, 4/e
Gloria K. Fiero

The Romantic View of Nature

Chapter Outline

  1. Historical Context
    1. economic and social conditions
    2. birth of European romanticism
  2. Nature and the Natural in European Literature
    1. Wordsworth
    2. Shelley
    3. Keats
  3. Nature and the Natural in Asian Literature
    1. Chinese nature poetry and landscape art
    2. Shen Fu and Chinese prose
  4. Romantic Landscape Painting
    1. Constable
    2. Turner
    3. Friedrich
    4. Corot
  5. Romanticism in America
    1. Transcendentalism
      1. Emerson
      2. Thoreau
    2. Walt Whitman
    3. moralizing landscapes
    4. Native American arts and nature
    5. American folk art
  6. Nature and Intellectual Thought
    1. Schopenhauer
    2. romantic mysticism
    3. Hegel
    4. Darwin and evolution