The French Revolution

Topic 1:

Evaluate how Napoleon both continued and broke from the aims of his revolutionary predecessors.

Topic 2:

Define “sublime” as the romantics used the term. Google paintings by the British artists J. M. W. Turner and John Constable. Using these images, discuss how the paintings reflect the sublime sensibility central to the aesthetics of Romanticism.

Topic 3:

In Book One of his Confessions, Rousseau claims, “I felt before I thought.” Other Romantic poets, like Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats, stress feeling over thinking too. Using textual evidence from the poems, discuss how the Romantic poets privileged emotion over reason.