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19 Nov 09

Elise B

Romanticism is a complex artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Western Europe
In a basic sense, the term "Romanticism" has been used to refer to certain artists, poets, writers, musicians, as well as political, philosophical and social thinkers of the late 18th and early to mid 19th centuries.

16 Nov 09

Kellen W

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The movement stressed strong emotion as a source of aesthetic experience, placing new emphasis on such emotions as
trepidation, horror
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- and awe
- It also legitimized the individual imagination as a critical authority
- which permitted freedom from classical notions of form in art.

12 Nov 09

Kylie W

In a basic sense, the term "Romanticism" has been used to refer to certain artists, poets, writers, musicians, as well as political, philosophical and social thinkers of the late 18th and early to mid 19th centuries. It has equally been used to refer to various artistic, intellectual, and social trends of that era. Despite this general usage of the term, a precise characterization and specific definition of Romanticism have been the subject of debate in the fields of intellectual history and literary history throughout the twentieth century, without any great measure of consensus emerging. Arthur Lovejoy attempted to demonstrate the difficulty of this problem in his seminal article "On The Discrimination of Romanticisms" in his Essays in the History of Ideas (1948); some scholars see romanticism as essentially continuous with the present, some see in it the inaugural moment of modernity, some see it as the beginning of a tradition of resistance to the Enlightenment—a Counter-Enlightenment—and still others place it firmly in the direct aftermath of the French Revolution. An earlier definition comes from Charles Baudelaire: "Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling."^[3]

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Romanticism is a complex artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Western Europe, and gained strength during the Industrial Revolution.^[1]

10 Nov 09

Jonathan Milburn

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It was partly a revolt against aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature,^[2] and was embodied most strongly in the visual arts, music, and literature.
the sublimity of untamed nature and its picturesque qualities
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- elevated folk art and custom to something noble, and argued for a "natural" epistemology of human activities as conditioned by nature in the form of language, custom and usage.
- elevate medievalism and elements of art and narrative perceived to be authentically medieval, in an attempt to escape the confines of population growth, urban sprawl, and industrialism, and it also attempted to embrace the exotic, unfamiliar, and distant in modes more authentic than chinoiserie, harnessing the power of the imagination to envision and to escape.
- the ideologies and events of the French Revolution laid the background from which Romanticism emerged. The confines of the Industrial Revolution also had their influence on Romanticism
- rooted in German Pietism, which prized intuition and emotion over Enlightenment rationalism,
- "Realism" was offered as a polarized opposite
- heroic
- There was a strong recourse to historical and natural inevitability
- the evocation or criticism of the past,
- Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne, based their writings on the supernatural/occult and human psychology.
- The Scottish poet James Macpherson influenced the early development of Romanticism with the international success of his Ossian cycle of poems published in 1762
- Romanticism in British literature developed in a different form slightly later
- The poet and painter William Blake is the most extreme example of the Romantic sensibility in Britain, epitomised by his claim “I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.” Blake's artistic work is also strongly influenced by Medieval illuminated books
- One of Romanticism's key ideas and most enduring legacies is the assertion of nationalism, which became a central theme of Romantic art and political philosophy.
- focus on development of national languages and folklore, and the importance of local customs and traditions, to the movements which would redraw the map of Europe and lead to calls for self-determination of nationalities, nationalism was one of the key vehicles of Romanticism, its role, expression and meaning.
- Early Romantic nationalism was strongly inspired by Rousseau
- This view of nationalism inspired the collection of folklore by such people as the Brothers Grimm, the revival of old epics as national, and the construction of new epics as if they were old, as in the Kalevala, compiled from Finnish tales and folklore, or Ossian,
- The view that fairy tales, unless contaminated from outside literary sources, were preserved in the same form over thousands of years, was not exclusive to Romantic Nationalists, but fit in well with their views that such tales expressed the primordial nature of a people.

05 Oct 09

Daniel Kim

The Romantics rejected rationalism and religious intellect.
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- Transcendentalism and Romanticism appealed to Americans in a similar fashion.
- Transcendentalism
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- rebelled against the confinement of
- Romantic literature was personal, intense, and portrayed more emotion than ever seen in neoclassical literature. A

14 Jul 09

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10 Jul 09

Charles Gnilka

Romanticism is a complex artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Western Europe, and gained strength during the Industrial Revolution.[1] It was partly a revolt against aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature,[2] and was embodied most strongly in the visual arts, music, and literature.

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Romanticism is a complex artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Western Europe, and gained strength during the Industrial Revolution.[1] It was partly a revolt against aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature, and was embodied most strongly in the visual arts, music, and literature.

The movement stressed strong emotion as a source of aesthetic experience, placing new emphasis on such emotions as trepidation, horror and awe—especially that which is experienced in confronting the sublimity of untamed nature and its picturesque qualities, both new aesthetic categories. It elevated folk art and custom to something noble, and argued for a "natural" epistemology of human activities as conditioned by nature in the form of language, custom and usage.

The Romantic hero, by contrast, must express strong feelings and follow his impulses wherever they
may lead.
C. Romantics believed that persons who expressed such feelings in their daily lives were superior to other people who conformed to social conventions. This sense of superiority justified revolts against society and explained the distinctive, personal vision of the Romantic hero.
D. But the revolt of the sensitive Romantic hero was often tragic because the rigid social structures of the world cannot tolerate such behavior. Indeed, Romantic heroes in literature and in life often died young in tragic situations; many ended by killing themselves.
E. In many ways, this image of the Romantic hero became the cultural image of the modern artistic personality; the artist is alone, rebellious, restless, sensitive, and misunderstood, but this is the fate of a genius.
F. Romantic ideology grew out of a new bourgeois culture that it also rejected and condemned. Like post-revolutionary liberals, the Romantics viewed the individual as the autonomous, creative force in social and cultural life.

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