LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY (18TH 19TH) CENTURIES
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Question
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Which of the following statements best characterizes Romanticism’s relationship to the Enlightenment?
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Romanticism continued the Enlightenment’s focus on a universal order best apprehended through reason.
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Romanticism challenged the Enlightenment’s emphasis on objectivity as the basis of truth.
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Romanticism largely abandoned the Enlightenment’s hope in progressive political change.
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Unlike the Enlightenment, Romanticism deemed the natural world unimportant.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Romanticism rejects the view that nature is passive But nature too, for the Enlightenment, had been passive, and furnished with entities that were passive. Romanticism challenged this also. The concept it reached for in asserting its alternative view was the concept of life.
Detailed explanation-2: -Romanticism was a revolt against the aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and also a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature. Romanticism legitimized the individual imagination as a critical authority, which permitted freedom from classical notions of form in art.
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