English Literature / Unit 12 ENL 1102 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Romanticism: What the Word Names
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The idea
Romanticism, a name given after the fact, prized subjectivity, imagination, emotion and nature against the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. The anchor stresses that it is neither romance nor prettiness, but closer to a repudiation of the eighteenth century's reason, decorum and classical models.
In practice
Imagination, feeling, nature, the self.
Where people slip
Romantic does not mean romantic love.
Your place on the trail
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