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18 Th Century 19 Th Century
1,808 wordsRomanticism (literature), a movement in the literature of virtually every country of Europe, the United States, and Latin America that lasted from about 1750 to about 1870, characterized by reliance on the imagination and subjectivity of approach, freedom of thought and expression, and an idealization of nature. The term romantic first appeared in 18 th-century English and originally meant "romance like " that is, resembling the fanciful character of medieval romances. By the late 18 th century ...
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