From Enlightenment to Romanticism: Anthology, Part 1This is the first of two anthologies designed to accompany the Open University course From Enlightenment to Romanticism, an interdisciplinary exploration of the changes and transitions in European culture between 1780 and 1830. sources on the death of the Old Regime, the Napoleonic phenomenon, slavery, religion and reform. Each selection is accompanied by a detailed introduction explaining the context and siginficance of the sources.Extracts in the anthology stimulate questions rather than provide reassuring answers and offer insights into the major events, movements and personaities of the time. |
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The kind exertions of many benevolent and humane gentlemen , against the
iniquitous traffic of slavery and oppression , has been attended with much good
to many , and must redound with great honor to themselves , to humanity and
their ...
The kind exertions of many benevolent and humane gentlemen , against the
iniquitous traffic of slavery and oppression , has been attended with much good
to many , and must redound with great honor to themselves , to humanity and
their ...
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at last be reduced to slaves . And an Ethiopian may venture to assert , that so
long as slavery is continued in any part of the British dominions , that more than
one - half of the legislature are the virtual supporters and encouragers of a traffic
...
at last be reduced to slaves . And an Ethiopian may venture to assert , that so
long as slavery is continued in any part of the British dominions , that more than
one - half of the legislature are the virtual supporters and encouragers of a traffic
...
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tell by myself what other slaves feel , and by what they have told me . The man
that says slaves be quite happy in slavery – that they don ' t want to be free – that
man is either ignorant or a lying person . I never heard a slave say so . I never ...
tell by myself what other slaves feel , and by what they have told me . The man
that says slaves be quite happy in slavery – that they don ' t want to be free – that
man is either ignorant or a lying person . I never heard a slave say so . I never ...
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Contents
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Don Giovanni | 3 |
Faith and death in the late Enlightenment | 17 |
David Hume Of Suicide | 24 |
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| Title | From Enlightenment to Romanticism: Anthology, Part 1 A 207 From Enlightenment to Romanticism: Anthology, Ian L. Donnachie |
| Editors | Ian L. Donnachie, Carmen Lavin |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press, 2003 |
| ISBN | 0719066700, 9780719066702 |
| Length | 307 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Europe / General Philosophy / History & Surveys / General |
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