Lecture 6

• Some people were pushing back on the Enlightenment.
  • People didn’t like the wildness: cutting off heads, invading Germany.
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The Romantics

• The Romantics thought the Enlightenment was dumb
  • 1790s - 1830s
  • But the Enlightenment was definitely winning
  • “weltschmerz”: things feel weird now, the old days were slower and simpler
• Tales have no pretty bowtie, the reader and author just ends with a feeling of confusion
• For Romantics, Black Forest (and forests in general) are places “untouched” by society
  • A more connected and centered connection with the world
  • Away from society’s pressures

Eckbert the Blonde

• Based on true stories