The Industrial Revolution provided the great imbalance between social classes which directly lead to the outcry for an “ism” that would bring equality to Europe.
The British industrial revolution in global perspective -Robert C. Allen. The industrial revolution in Europe : Germany, France, Russia, 1815-1914 -William Otto Henderson.
Charles Babbage's work as a Polymath and inventor of the computer saved the idea of the Polymath from being impractical, as individual subjects required more knowledge in order to be versed in them.
Working Bibliography Bibliography: http://people.ucls.uchicago.edu/~jlipman/Charles-Babbage.html
The rise of literacy of the middle class coupled with the technical advances in printing and book-binding lead to the need for Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary to make the rules, spellings and patterns of the English language more concrete.
Sources: http://www.jstor.org/stable/23540180
The Making of Johnson's Dictionary 1746-1773 (Allen Reddick)
Thesis: The mainstream art culture in Europe changed from an emotion and feeling based art form called Romanticism to a true to life and thought centered form called realism because of the outcome of the Revolutions of 1848.
Sources:
1.
David, Jacques-Louis. Oath of the Horatii. 1784. Oil on canvas.
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Courbet, Gustave. Le Rencontre. 1854. Oil on canvas.
3.
Rosenblum, Robert, and H. W. Janson. 19th Century Art. New York: Abrams, 1984.
The Victorian Flower Language developed so that people could communicate things which they could not say out loud.
Sources: Title: Considering the Lilies: Ruskin's "Proserpina" and Other Victorian Flower Books Author(s): Beverly Seaton Source: Victorian Studies, Vol. 28, No. 2 (Winter, 1985), pp. 255-282 Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3827163
Nehemiah Cleaveland, The Flowers Personified, New York: R Martin, 1849. Via the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/flowerspersonif00gimbgoog
Greenaway, Kate. Language of Flowers. London: George Routledge and Sons. https://archive.org/details/languageofflower00gree
Working Thesis: The increasingly widespread Enlightenment-age belief that the nature of humans, born blank slates, would be shaped entirely by their environment, upbringing and education (as opposed to the Calvinistic view of humans as hopelessly pre-determined to commit sin) led to the increasingly common practice of "curing" homosexuality in countries including France and England. At the same time, this Enlightenment ideal also caused for more and more literary works and discussions of homosexuality in the public sphere.
Preliminary Sources: Invisible Relations: Representations of Female Intimacy in the Age of Enlightenment -Elizabeth S. Wahl
Homosexuality in Modern France -Jeffrey Merrick and Bryant T. Ragan
Homosexuality in Renaissance and Enlightenment England: Literary Representations in Historical Context -Claude J. Summers
The French Revolution was a nearly direct effect of the French support of the colonial revolutionaries during the American War of Independence in 1776.
Due to the popularity of Dutch nationalist paintings, artists from other countries were inspired to share their nationalistic attitudes with their fellow countrymen, thus leading to the overwhelming patriotic feeling across Europe and the demand for independence.
Sources: A History of Europe in the Modern World- Palmer Painting in the Dutch Golden Age- Jenner, Riddell, and Moore
The french revolution led to the literature movement fueled by poets and novelists with strong ideals concerning the revolution which were more easily received in the the form of a story the people could relate to.
Sources: The American Art Journal (1866-1867) Vol. 5, No. 23 (Sep. 27, 1866), pp. 357-358 The North American Review, Vol. 151, No. 409 (Dec., 1890), pp. 650-661
I think you are saying that the literature inspired by the FR was more influential than the histories of it. Could you narrow your focus and concentrate on the influence of one or two pieces of literature?
In 1882, the great German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and the great German composer Richard Wagner decided they could no longer be friends. This was because Nietzsche had found so many issues with Wagner’s final opera, Parsifal, that the two could no longer come together on similar terms. Nietzsche even wrote an entire essay about why he hated Parsifal, but the precise reasons for why the two split up are more complicated, and are far larger than a mere personal differentiation of opinion. In fact, they represent two trains of 19th century thought coming to full light. One stating that religion should no longer be part of the human race and the world, and that man should think for himself and create his own morality (Gott ist tot!), and another stating that man could only find redemption beyond the world; looking to the beyond rather than the tangible. There was also the extent to which each man interpreted and believed the philosophy of a predecessor of theirs who proved to be highly influential on them both: Arthur Schopenhauer. It was thus that Nietzsche and Wagner represented, roughly speaking, these two ideas, but there was a large extent to which they agreed with each other, as they had when they were friends, and then there was of course a certain artistic synthesis of the two: the Austrian composer Gustav Mahler, who was indebted to both men.
Sources:
Richard Wagner: A Life in Music (Martin Geck, translated by Stewart Spencer) On The Genealogy of Morals (Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Walter Kaufmann)
The world of the Chinese people succumbing to opium due to the awakening of the green monster within the Westerners upon seeing beautiful silks gives us the tools to confront structural oppression against the Asian body in this world we see today.
sources McNeill 85 – Ph.D from Cornell, Professor of History emeritus at the University of Chicago, written over twenty books (1985, William H. McNeill, “Why Study History?”), ABC
Perdue 10 –Professor Emeritus of History, Ph. D from Harvard in history and East Asian languages, author of many books, recipient of 1988 Edgerton Award and James A. Levitan Prize (2010, Peter C. Perdue, “The First Opium War”, http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/opium_wars_01/ow1_essay_01.pdf), ABC
Nelson, 7 (Scott Reynolds Nelson—Legum Professor of History at the College of William and Mary. He is a historian of the American Civil War and the Gilded Age. He specializes in African-American history and Labor history.; “Many Middle Passages: Forced Migration And The Making Of The Modern World”; Pg. 166-169, CHAPTER 8; University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California; 2007)
I am having a hard following your thesis statement. What is the "green monster?" Define your terms! Also, what is "the structural oppression of the Asian body?"
The Industrial Revolution provided the great imbalance between social classes which directly lead to the outcry for an “ism” that would bring equality to Europe.
ReplyDeleteThe British industrial revolution in global perspective -Robert C. Allen.
The industrial revolution in Europe : Germany, France, Russia, 1815-1914 -William Otto Henderson.
What kind of equality: social, political or economic? Quite broad.
DeleteCharles Babbage's work as a Polymath and inventor of the computer saved the idea of the Polymath from being impractical, as individual subjects required more knowledge in order to be versed in them.
ReplyDeleteWorking Bibliography Bibliography:
http://people.ucls.uchicago.edu/~jlipman/Charles-Babbage.html
Very interesting, I look forward to reading it.
DeleteThe rise of literacy of the middle class coupled with the technical advances in printing and book-binding lead to the need for Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary to make the rules, spellings and patterns of the English language more concrete.
ReplyDeleteSources:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/23540180
The Making of Johnson's Dictionary 1746-1773
(Allen Reddick)
A topic that interests me; make sure that what you argue has an original bent to it.
DeleteThesis: The mainstream art culture in Europe changed from an emotion and feeling based art form called Romanticism to a true to life and thought centered form called realism because of the outcome of the Revolutions of 1848.
ReplyDeleteSources:
1.
David, Jacques-Louis. Oath of the Horatii. 1784. Oil on canvas.
2.
Courbet, Gustave. Le Rencontre. 1854. Oil on canvas.
3.
Rosenblum, Robert, and H. W. Janson. 19th Century Art. New York: Abrams, 1984.
-Mathew Ferraro
You could express your thesis more concisely. I don't the originality in what you are arguing. Let's rework this thesis tomorrow.
DeleteThe Victorian Flower Language developed so that people could communicate things which they could not say out loud.
ReplyDeleteSources:
Title: Considering the Lilies: Ruskin's "Proserpina" and Other Victorian Flower Books
Author(s): Beverly Seaton
Source: Victorian Studies, Vol. 28, No. 2 (Winter, 1985), pp. 255-282
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3827163
Nehemiah Cleaveland, The Flowers Personified, New York: R Martin, 1849. Via the Internet Archive.
https://archive.org/details/flowerspersonif00gimbgoog
Greenaway, Kate. Language of Flowers. London: George Routledge and Sons.
https://archive.org/details/languageofflower00gree
http://www.gardens.si.edu/come-learn/docs/Template_HistBloom_Language%20of%20Flowers.pdf
I know nothing about the Victorian Flower language but I look forward to learning about it. Is your thesis original?
DeleteThe Enlightenment, which promoted religious freedom and tolerance, led to the improved treatment of Jews throughout Europe, especially under Napoleon.
ReplyDeleteSources:
The Jew in the Modern World by Paul R. Mendes-Flohr and Jehuda Reinharz
http://www.aish.com/jl/h/cc/48955286.html
Alec, what are you saying that is original? Narrow your topic and look for an original wrinkle.
DeleteWorking Thesis: The industrial revolution led to children having more ideals based on society and not on family values.
ReplyDeleteWorking Bibliography:
http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/lesson7.html
https://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/industry/1.htm
Working Thesis: The increasingly widespread Enlightenment-age belief that the nature of humans, born blank slates, would be shaped entirely by their environment, upbringing and education (as opposed to the Calvinistic view of humans as hopelessly pre-determined to commit sin) led to the increasingly common practice of "curing" homosexuality in countries including France and England. At the same time, this Enlightenment ideal also caused for more and more literary works and discussions of homosexuality in the public sphere.
ReplyDeletePreliminary Sources:
Invisible Relations: Representations of Female Intimacy in the Age of Enlightenment
-Elizabeth S. Wahl
Homosexuality in Modern France
-Jeffrey Merrick and Bryant T. Ragan
Homosexuality in Renaissance and Enlightenment England: Literary Representations in Historical Context
-Claude J. Summers
Lisa, an interesting thesis. When you look at the literature on this topic, are you saying something that is original?
DeleteThrough his influence on nationalism, Jean Jacques Rousseau influenced the assassin of Franz Ferdinand, leading to WWI
ReplyDeleteHearing of Gavrilo Princip: http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/eehistory/H200Readings/Topic6-R3.html
Nationalism: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/405644/nationalism/66564/French-nationalism
You are covering a long period here. Will you really be able to find catenas that connect Rousseau to Ferdinand?
DeleteThe French Revolution was a nearly direct effect of the French support of the colonial revolutionaries during the American War of Independence in 1776.
ReplyDeleteInteresting catena, but when you look at the literature, is your thesis original?
DeleteDue to the popularity of Dutch nationalist paintings, artists from other countries were inspired to share their nationalistic attitudes with their fellow countrymen, thus leading to the overwhelming patriotic feeling across Europe and the demand for independence.
ReplyDeleteSources: A History of Europe in the Modern World- Palmer
Painting in the Dutch Golden Age- Jenner, Riddell, and Moore
You are attributing a lot of influence to Dutch paintings; will it hold up upon careful analysis?
DeleteThe french revolution led to the literature movement fueled by poets and novelists with strong ideals concerning the revolution which were more easily received in the the form of a story the people could relate to.
ReplyDeleteSources: The American Art Journal (1866-1867) Vol. 5, No. 23 (Sep. 27, 1866), pp. 357-358
The North American Review, Vol. 151, No. 409 (Dec., 1890), pp. 650-661
I think you are saying that the literature inspired by the FR was more influential than the histories of it. Could you narrow your focus and concentrate on the influence of one or two pieces of literature?
DeleteIn 1882, the great German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and the great German composer Richard Wagner decided they could no longer be friends. This was because Nietzsche had found so many issues with Wagner’s final opera, Parsifal, that the two could no longer come together on similar terms. Nietzsche even wrote an entire essay about why he hated Parsifal, but the precise reasons for why the two split up are more complicated, and are far larger than a mere personal differentiation of opinion. In fact, they represent two trains of 19th century thought coming to full light. One stating that religion should no longer be part of the human race and the world, and that man should think for himself and create his own morality (Gott ist tot!), and another stating that man could only find redemption beyond the world; looking to the beyond rather than the tangible. There was also the extent to which each man interpreted and believed the philosophy of a predecessor of theirs who proved to be highly influential on them both: Arthur Schopenhauer. It was thus that Nietzsche and Wagner represented, roughly speaking, these two ideas, but there was a large extent to which they agreed with each other, as they had when they were friends, and then there was of course a certain artistic synthesis of the two: the Austrian composer Gustav Mahler, who was indebted to both men.
ReplyDeleteSources:
Richard Wagner: A Life in Music (Martin Geck, translated by Stewart Spencer)
On The Genealogy of Morals (Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Walter Kaufmann)
Xander, is your thesis original? Does the literature about these two men offer a different perspective than what you are putting forth?
DeleteThe world of the Chinese people succumbing to opium due to the awakening of the green monster within the Westerners upon seeing beautiful silks gives us the tools to confront structural oppression against the Asian body in this world we see today.
ReplyDeletesources
DeleteMcNeill 85 – Ph.D from Cornell, Professor of History emeritus at the University of Chicago, written over twenty books (1985, William H. McNeill, “Why Study History?”), ABC
Perdue 10 –Professor Emeritus of History, Ph. D from Harvard in history and East Asian languages, author of many books, recipient of 1988 Edgerton Award and James A. Levitan Prize (2010, Peter C. Perdue, “The First Opium War”, http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/opium_wars_01/ow1_essay_01.pdf), ABC
Nelson, 7 (Scott Reynolds Nelson—Legum Professor of History at the College of William and Mary. He is a historian of the American Civil War and the Gilded Age. He specializes in African-American history and Labor history.; “Many Middle Passages: Forced Migration And The Making Of The Modern World”; Pg. 166-169, CHAPTER 8; University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California; 2007)
I am having a hard following your thesis statement. What is the "green monster?" Define your terms! Also, what is "the structural oppression of the Asian body?"
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