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The objective of Chapter 28 is to examine the romantic significance of historical and fictional heroes and heroines in nineteenth-century Western culture.
After reading this chapter, you should be familiar with:
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| 1. the role and influence of nationalism in the romantic era |
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| 2. the concept of the heroic personality as manifested in the fictional figures of Prometheus, Frankenstein, and Faust? |
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| 3. the significance of historical heroes (such as Napoleon and Douglass) in nineteenth-century culture? |
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| 4. nineteenth-century romantic stereotypes of the female? |