Lecture: The Bourgeoisie, Liberalism, Conservatism, Romanticism

Definition of the bourgeoisie

Structure of the bourgeoisie

The "privileged" bourgeoisie

The working bourgeoisie: businessmen, bankers, professionals

The petit bourgeoisie

Bourgeois assertiveness

Increasing respect for the liberal professions

Bourgeois lifestyle

Housing

Servants

Money, and how they spent it

Clothing, education, music, food

Charity?

Travel

The transformation of public space

The transformation of private space

Fashion

Dueling

Liberalism and the bourgeoisie

Liberal ideology

The invisible hand

The happy mean

The unhappy laws: Malthus’s law of population increase, Ricardo’s law of wages

Fear of the state

Fear of the masses

Conservatism

Edmund Burke

What is Romanticism? The difficulty of defining romanticism

What romanticism is supposed to be

Romanticism vs. the Enlightenment

Romanticist style

Theodore Gericault’s Raft of the Medusa; Eugene Delacroix’s Liberty leading the people;

Focus on history, nationality, emotion, irrationality

W.H. Smith | Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach | Karl Baedeker | Beau Brummell | Mensur | Schmiss | J.B. Say | Frederic Bastiat | Thomas Malthus | David Ricardo | Harriet Martineau | Benjamin Constant | George Sand (Amandine Dupin) | Ludwig van Beethoven | Franz Schubert | Sir Walter Scott | Alfred Lord Tennyson | Victor Hugo | Mary Shelley | Edgar Allan Poe |