Series: Routledge Library Editions: Romanticism

First published in 1981, this book aims to show Romanticism as a response to certain questions – in literature, art, religion, philosophy, and politics – that were being asked increasingly towards the end of the eighteenth century. The essays focus on growth and change (in society and the individual), nature, feeling and reason, and subjectivism. They examine how these questions...

First published in 1981, this book aims to show Romanticism as a response to certain questions—in literature, art, religion, philosophy, and politics—that were being asked increasingly towards the end of the eighteenth century. The essays focus on growth and change (in society and the individual), nature, feeling and reason, and subjectivism. They examine how these questions arose, why they were...