Romanticism

Romanticism, or the Romantic movement, was a style of art, literature and music in the late 18th and the early 19th century in Europe. 

The movement believed in the importance of feelings, imagination, nature, human life, freedom of expression, individualism, and old folk traditions (like legends and fairy tales).  

The movement showed most strongly in arts like music and literature. However, it also had an important influence on historiography,David Levin, History as Romantic Art: Bancroft, Prescott, and Parkman (1967) education,Gerald Lee Gutek, A history of the Western educational experience (1987) ch. 12 on Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi and natural history.Ashton Nichols, "Roaring Alligators and Burning Tygers: Poetry and Science from William Bartram to Charles Darwin," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 2005 149(3): 304-315 

 Background 
The Romantic movement was a reaction to the aristocratic social and political ideas of the Age of Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. It was also a reaction against turning nature into mere science.
 Examples 
 United Kingdom 
British Romanticism was notable because the United Kingdom was an early adopter of industrialization and science. Well-known British Romanticists include:
 William Wordsworth
 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
 Lord Byron
 Percy Bysshe Shelley
 William Blake
 Robert Burns
 Walter Scott
J. M. W. Turner

 Germany 
During the same period as in Britain, a notable Romantic movement occurred in Germany. Travel, nature, and Germanic myths were important motifs. 

Famous German Romanticists include:
Ludwig von Beethoven
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as a younger man
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Friedrich Schiller
Brothers Grimm

Related pages
 Romance (love)
 Romantic music
 Romantic poetry

 References 

 Other websites 
 The Romantic Poets
 Dictionary of the History of Ideas , Romanticism
 Romantic Circles Electronic editions, histories, and scholarly articles related to the Romantic era
 Dictionary of the History of Ideas , Romanticism in Political Thought
 Romanticism in the "History of Art" 
Romanticism in the Art History Archive

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