Romanticism
Romanticism (or Romantic movement) is a movement, or style of art, literature and music in the late 18th and early 19th century in Europe.
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The movement said that feelings, imagination, nature, human life, freedom of expression, individualism and old folk traditions, such as legends and fairy tales, were important.[1] It was a reaction to the aristocratic social and political ideas of the Age of Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution.[1][2]
It was also a reaction against turning nature into a mere science.[2]
The movement showed most strongly in arts like music, and literature. However, it also had an important influence on historiography,[3] education,[4] and natural history.[5]
Examples
changeUnited Kingdom
changeRomanticism in Britain was notable as the country was an early adopter of industrialization and science, and included such figures as:
- William Wordsworth
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Lord Byron
- Shelley
- William Blake
- Robert Burns
- Walter Scott
- J. M. W. Turner
Germany
changeDuring the same period as Britain, there was a notable romantistic movement in Germany. Important motifs in German Romanticism are traveling, nature, and Germanic myths. Involved were such figures as:
- Goethe as a younger man.
- Hegel
- Schiller
- Beethoven
- The Brothers Grimm
Related pages
changeReferences
change- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Romanticism -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia". britannica.com. Retrieved 14 April 2010.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Casey, Christopher (2008). "Grecian grandeurs and the rude wasting of old time: Britain, the Elgin Marbles, and post-revolutionary Hellenism". Foundations. Volume III, Number 1. Archived from the original on 2009-05-13. Retrieved 2009-06-25.
- ↑ David Levin, History as Romantic Art: Bancroft, Prescott, and Parkman (1967)
- ↑ Gerald Lee Gutek, A history of the Western educational experience (1987) ch. 12 on Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
- ↑ 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
Other websites
change- The Romantic Poets
- Dictionary of the History of Ideas Archived 2009-09-14 at the Wayback Machine, Romanticism
- Romantic Circles Electronic editions, histories, and scholarly articles related to the Romantic era
- Dictionary of the History of Ideas Archived 2008-10-01 at the Wayback Machine, Romanticism in Political Thought
- Romanticism in the "History of Art" Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
- Romanticism in the Art History Archive