Romanticism "Romanticism" and "romantic" are protean words, the despair of a rigorous semanticist. They designate a generally accepted period, especially in literature and the arts, of Western cultural history, roughly from...

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 mid-19th century. Romanticism can be seen as...

Romanticism [addendum] When romanticism is understood broadly, as referring to a major development in European thought and culture since the turn of the nineteenth century that shows itself distinctly in the spheres of art, historical writing, and...

. Potential for the resort to force of arms characterized 15th-century French politics. Great magnates and princes of the blood regularly assembled coalitions of lesser men anxiously seeking patronage and protection. Those who openly challenged royal...

Literary, artistic, and philosophical movement that began in Europe in the 18th century and lasted roughly until the mid-19th century. In its intense focus on the individual consciousness, it was both a continuation of and a reaction against the...

A broad movement in thought in philosophy that was a reaction to the technical rationality and empiricism of the Enlightenment. It has had its effects in education with its concerns for qualitative research and in the curriculum. See romantic...

Romanticism is an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated around the middle of the 18th century in Western Europe, and gained strength during the Industrial Revolution. It was partly a revolt against aristocratic, social, and...