ROMANTICISM PART TWO
Channel: Journalism Now
Date: 2011-02-23

First part of a four part lecture about the Romantic movement given by Dr Gary Farnell of the British Association for Romanticism Studies and a lecturer at the University of Winchester in the UK. The discussion coers aspects of the french revolution, the music of beethoven and the cult of the genius generally, it looks in some detailinto the contemporary significance of romanticism and touches upon the links between aesthetic romanticism, revolutionary politics, nationalism and philosophical idealism.