Romanticism
Romanticism Romanticism a designation so grandly inclusive as to defy designation. Romanticism refers to so many cultural manifestations that one can hardly put it down. In general, it implies new emphasis on imagination and on feeling on the value of primitive and untrammeled, and particularly a narrowing outlook from the universal to the particular, from humankind or "man" to nation or ethnic group and from the stability of community to the "fulfillment" of the individual(Revolution and Romanticism, Mack). In the writings of individuals, one finds lines of continuity between the late and early parts of the 18th century, but when it comes to generalization, all the important truths appear to generalizations, all the important truths appear to have reversed themselves(Revolution and Romanticism, Mack).