Romantics and romanticism

Romanticism was often construed in France, not least after Mme de Staël, as a German phenomenon, given over to philosophy and the pleasures of the imagination. But Henri Beyle, as ...

This chapter explores two possible interpretations of the British Romantics abroad, the first referring to the many writers who travelled on the Continent in this period, the secon...

In the various permutations of German Romanticism from its beginnings in the 1790s, two factors remain constant: a penchant for collaborative, transdisciplinary work, and the forma...

Why was Milton so important to the Romantics? How did 'Milton the Regicide', a man often regarded in his lifetime as a dangerous traitor and heretic, become 'the Sublime Milton'? t...

The French Romantic artist often has to define his place and his function in society in ways external to the essence of his work or to the aesthetic domain: he has to assume a mask...

Traditionally, Hungarian literature newly born of Romanticism began to look to its national past and popular traditions for the foundations of its identity. The result was the birt...

This chapter explains that the movement that eventually came to be known as Romanticism had its origins in politicized canon-formation. A particular literary taste was developed by...

The Romantic movement led to some of the greatest works of 19th-century American literature. Written expressly for students, this book offers succinct introductions to 10 of the mo...