Romanticism

Romanticism is an arty, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in 18th century Western Europe during the Industrial Revolution. It was in part a revolt against aristocratic, social, and political norms of the Enlightenment stage and an answer against the scientific rationalization of nature in art and literature. It stressed physically powerful emotion as a source of aesthetic practice, placing latest emphasis on such emotions as trepidation, horror, and the awe experienced in confronting the sublimity of untamed nature. It elevated folk art, nature and custom, with arguing for an epistemology based on nature, which incorporated human activity conditioned by nature in the type of language, custom and practice. It was influenced by ideas of the Enlightenment and elevated medievalism and elements of art and story perceived to be from the medieval time. The name "romantic" itself comes from the term "romance" which is a writing style or poetic heroic story originating in medieval literature and romantic literature.

The ideologies and happenings of the French Revolution and Industrial Revolution are considered to have influenced the movement. Romanticism elevated the attainments of what it perceived as misunderstood heroic persons and artists that changed society. It as well legitimized the human being imagination as a serious authority which allowed freedom from classical notions of type in art. There was a physically powerful recourse to historical and natural certainty in the representation of its ideas.