Textbook
The Romantic MovementISBN: 978-0-631-19471-2
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176 pages
September 1994, ©1994, Wiley-Blackwell
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Despite the differences of aim and emphasis across Europe,
Professor Cranston argues that romaticism was a European
phenomenon, as universal as the Renaissance. He isolates its common
features - liberty, introspection, and the importance of love;
truth in the expression of feeling as much as of thought; nature
seen as an object of devotion rather than scientific study; a
tolerance of the grotesque coupled with an interest in the exotic,
the primitive and the medieval; a concern for the value of
intuition over ratiocination; and a preference for audacity over
prudence.
The Romantic Movement is part of the common European heritage, and its influence is by no means at an end. The book is the first to describe its philosophy, history, and cultural and artistic manifestations, and the ways these varied across the countries of Europe.