Romanticism:

Where?

North Europe

Britain

Germany

When?

from the French Revolution (1790)

to the Coronation of Queen Victoria (1837)

What?

artistic,literary and intellectual movement

from "romance"(genre of medioeval literature)

beyond classical literature

nothing refering with "love"

Why?

reaction to...

The industrial revolution

Enlightment

Norms of the aristocracy

from "logos" to "pathos"

nostalgia

imagination

introspection

individualism

the atypical, the rebel

no imposed rules

the hero

taste for desolation

natural inevitability

give expressiomn to emotional experience

free from classical notions

Rousseau

social conventions produce evil in men

cult of the exotic

will to explore less conscious aspects of feelings

unfamiliar and frightening

countryside as a place where find a relationship with nature

interest in humble and everyday life

man can't control Nature

it's the manifestation of devine power on Earth

poet as "man among men"