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Neo-Classicism, Romanticism and Victorian
| . | Neo-Classical
(mid1700s - mid 1800s) Utilized their view of the ancient world to create order, self-control, and the promotion of ideal values. |
Romantics
(1780s - 1850s) Disillusionment with Enlightenment ideals; instead desired personal freedom, exploration of unknown, lived-experiences |
Victorian
(1850s - 1900s) Heirarchical Organization: morality, Evangelicalism, industrial work ethic, self-reliance, industriousness and individualism |
| A. | Idealize how to make the experience perfect
(The experience will be critiqued) |
Idealize the perfect love or experience last
(You reflect on the experience afterwards) |
Idealize the perfect love or experience first
(you think of what a perfect experience WILL soon be like) |
| B. | Pursuit of knowledge
knowledge helps you act proper and higher status |
Pursuit of experience
You jump into experiences for the sake of experiencing |
Pursuit of ideal
You have a set of ideal situations and you seek them out |
| C. | Emotion is reserved | Expression and emotion as a bursting well, a spring of intense force | Reactionary to emotional stimuli and duress |
| D. | Popular: The Classics | Rejection (ignore) popular beliefs | Popular-held beliefs of relationships or happiness |
| E. | Believe in neutrality | Duality of emotions as a sensation of experience | Believe in opposites states of being: joy (love) and depression |
| F. | Find the reason within each thing | Experience of any kind is beautiful | Concentrate on the bold and the beautiful |
| G. | Emotion is cowardly and ugly | Logic-only is cowardly and ugly | Escape the cowardly and the ugly |
| H. | Nature is riddled in reason and knowledge | "Mystic" perception of nature; nature causes intense experiences | Nature as setting for idealized encounter |
| I. | Platonic love as professed ideal | Platonic Love as spiritual attachment | Platonic Love as sexual detachment |
| J. | Control personal 'environment' | Against control of personal 'environment' | Controlling of their personal 'environment' |
| K. | Perfect the experience | Reflect on experience one had | Project experience that one seeks |
| L. | Form and function above contentment | Content before form and function | Form and function before content |
| M. | Individual in society | Individual above society | Individual in relationship |
| N. | Centered views around the classics | Subjective | Centered ideas relative to other views |
| O. | Appeal to Tradition Fallacy | Pathetic(pathos)Fallacy | Sympathetic Fallacy (argumentum ad misercordiam) |
| P. | Reason over emotion | Emotion then reason | Reason then emotion |
| Q. | Lifestyle relied on social class | Preference for country living | 'Lifestyle' dependant on idea pursued |
| R. | Insipiration of Romans and Greeks | Inspiration from folk ballads | Derivative of past stories (knights, etc) |
| S. | Period relied on Classic | Preference for the Middle Ages over Classical | Period dependant on idea pursued |
| T. | Conservative and proper views | Growth of humanitarianism, democracy | Social outlook dependant on idea pursued |
| U. | Religion provided reason for everything | More personal religion | Religious affiliation dependant on idea pursued |
| V. | Death is inevitable but not discussed | Contemplation of death and grave as unknown | Contemplation of death and grave as depression and appropriate grief |
| W. | Irrational corrupted reason | The 'irrational' as evidence of romance | Irrational aids imagination |
| X. | Supressed emotion | Emotive, sensual | Post-Emotional, post-sensual |
| Y. | Passions were embraced properly | Focus on passions | Focus on 'being passionate' |
| Z. | Reason | Visionary | Fantasies |
| AA. | Experience in understanding | Experience as transcendental | Experience in romance as escapism |
| BB. | Imagination breaks verisimilitude | Imagination is the gateway to transcendental experience and spiritual truth | Imagination 'fleshes out' idea to be pursued |
| CC. | Predilection with mundane and proper themes | Predilection for 'weird,' 'mysterious,' 'occult,' 'monstrous,' 'diseased.' | Predilection for excitement from drudgery |
| DD. | Predilection for the educated and proper hero | Preoccupation with the hero as lone wandering adventurer | Preoccupation with hero as savior from loneliness and drudgery |
| EE. | Change disrupted order | Mutability --continual change is integral to living | Change wanted for a better life; then no change |
| FF. | Spontaniety disrupted | Spontaneity must always exist | Spontaneity leads to security |
| GG. | Beauty is a universal standard | Beauty as a life truly lived | Ideal 'common-held' notion of beauty |
| HH. | Innocence is defeated to gain knowledge but not talked about | Continually both innocent and experienced | Person begins innocence gains experience |
| II. | Uses form and structure | Alludes to Biblical, other times, Shakespear | Uses self-help style literature |
| JJ. | Artists follow the ones before them | Artist as creator, not reproducer | Artist as rebel, outside of society |
| KK. | Do not indulge in imagination | Understanding through Imagination | Contrivance through Imagination |