HUM 2033: Intro to the Humanities II Okpala

Guide for Jude Okpala's Intro to the Humanities II course.

Romanticism: Nature, Passion and the Sublime

Bentley, Eric Russell. “Romanticism: A Re-Evaluation.” The Antioch Review, vol. 4, no. 1, 1944, pp. 6–20. JSTOR, doi:10.2307/4608986.
Describes the Romantic movement as an attempt to solve the problems created by the dissolving eighteenth century.
Peckham, Morse. “Toward a Theory of Romanticism.” PMLA, vol. 66, no. 2, 1951, pp. 5–23. JSTOR, JSTOR, doi:10.2307/459586.
Explores the idea of Romanticism as a specific historical movement in art and ideas which occurred in Europe and America in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Coles, Bob. Symphony No. 5 in c Minor, Op. 67 | Alexander Street, a ProQuest Company. Accessed 18 Nov. 2019.
Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770-1827 (1808); conducted by Claudio Abbado, 1933-2014; produced by Paul Smaczny, fl. 1995-2015; performed by Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (Berliner Philharmoniker), in BEETHOVEN Symphonies 2 & 5, 39 mins
Films for Humanities & Sciences. (2005). Video - Romanticism: Imagining Freedom - Films On Demand.
Watch segments 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 7, 10. "The rebellious artist, the attraction to the dark side, love and death, and the primacy of nature—all of these are themes that suffused the artistic and ideological revolution known as Romanticism. This program vividly conveys how new ways of thinking and seeing reshaped the humanities in the 18th and 19th centuries. The writings of Hölderlin, Emerson, Poe, Whitman, Byron, Wordsworth, and Keats, as well as the paintings of Turner and Goya and the music of Beethoven, are vibrantly presented. Scholars Susan Wolfson, professor of English at Princeton University; Rafael Argullol Murgados, director of the Institut Universitari de Cultura; Xavier Antich, professor of aesthetics at the Universitat de Girona; and David Reynolds, distinguished professor of English at Baruch College, CUNY, discuss the characteristics of this influential movement and its impact on contemporary culture." (53 min)