Exam 16: The Eighteenth Century

What is Walt Whitman's most important work?

Which 19^th-century Russian author produced two huge novels that combined fictional characters with real people and events from history?

Which of Charles Dickens' novels criticized the treatment of the poor in workhouses?

_______________________ Traditional Polish dances used by Chopin in his piano compositions.

Which of these nineteenth-century artists were known especially for their scenes depicting nature?

_______________________ German literary movement that rebelled against Neoclassicism's structure and order

How did Arthur Schopenhauer view humanity?

What is the story of Faust?

Which French painter was the creator of Raft of the Medusa 1818)?

What 1853 work broke new ground in the history of opera by dealing with contemporary life rather than a historical or mythological subject?

Who were the great musical virtuosos of the nineteenth century?

_______________________ Quiet movement in a movement in a symphony; means "interlude"

_______________________ Nineteenth-century virtuoso violinist who cultivated a diabolical image

Who were the Transcendentalists?

What did Richard Wagner mean by Gesamtkunstwerk?

What is the title of Richard Wagner's most monumental operatic work?

Which art style came after Romanticism?

What was Karl Marx's view of the inevitability of history? In what 1848 work was this thought powerfully expressed? According to Marx, what forces inevitably shaped history? What type of art did Marx prefer, realism or romanticism? Why?

What contributed to the rise of the novel in the nineteenth century?

What was the subject of Henry David Thoreau's Walden?