Chapter 27/28Humanities 112 Review – Flashcards
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As discussed in the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section, what might Théodore Géricault have aimed to capture in his series of portraits of the insane?
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The downtrodden and forgotten
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In A Defense of Poetry, what did Percy Shelley claim was the role of poets?
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To change the world
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Why in Lyrical Ballads did Wordsworth chose to focus on people from "humble and rustic life"?
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They were closer to nature
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Why did Romantic artists such as Thomas Cole see America as having so much potential?
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It's vast tracts of wilderness
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In Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," what does the Mariner's killing of the albatross represent?
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An attack on nature
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How did lithography revolutionize printmaking?
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Prints became quick and cheap
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What type of government did France have after Napoleon fell in 1815?
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Monarchy
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Why did Frederick Douglass eventually break away from the Anti-Slavery Society?
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Concern that their doctrine would dissolve the Union
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What did French painter Paul Delaroche declare when he saw his first daguerreotype?
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"Painting is dead"
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What theory did Harvard professor Louis Agassiz aim to prove in his study of South Carolina slaves?
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Africans were inferior to whites
