The encyclopedia of romantic literature is a comprehensive reference resource covering british artistic, literary, and intellectual movements from the late eighteenth century to the early nineteenth century, within the context of european, transatlantic, and colonial historical and cultural interaction. Pages in category literature the following 51 pages are in this category, out of 51 total. Encyclopedia of literary romanticism provides a comprehensive atoz guide to the romantic movement, including such great writers as william wordsworth, john keats, and mary shelley. Source for information on romanticism in literature and politics. If you wish to enable access for your institution, please click here to request access. The literary encyclopedia in response to the covid19 crisis, the literary encyclopedia is offering free access until june 30th to all he institutions affected by closures. Romanticism is perhaps the richest and certainly the most vexed of the isms. In response to the covid19 crisis, the literary encyclopedia is offering free access until june 30th to all he institutions affected by closures. Romanticism as a literary movement lasted from 1798, with the publication of lyrical ballads to some time between the passage of the first reform bill of 1832 and the death of wordsworth in 1850. Description the romantics valued nature, spontaneity, visionary experience, powerful feeling, and the artists individual response to the experience of life. The routledge dictionary of literary terms the routledge dictionary of literary termsis a twentyfirst century update of roger fowlers seminal dictionary of modern critical terms.
Romanticism, attitude or intellectual orientation that characterized many works of literature, painting, music, architecture, criticism, and historiography in western civilization over a period from the late 18th to the mid19th century. English literature english literature the romantic period. It was partly a reaction to the industrial revolution, the aristocratic social and political norms of the. As a term to cover the most distinctive writers who flourished in the last years of the 18th century and the first decades of the 19th, romantic is indispensable but also a little misleading. Romanticism was characterized by its emphasis on emotion and individualism as well as glorification of all the past and nature, preferring the medieval rather than the classical. Encyclopedia of literary romanticism provides a comprehensive ato z guide to the romantic movement, including such great. The encyclopedia of romantic literature major reference.
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