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Romanticism

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Cultural and intellectual movement that reflected a crisis in Enlightenment thought by valuing imagination, sensitivity, feelings, spontaneity and freedom over objectivity and rationalism

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"So, this led me down the rabbit hole of Romanticism. I poorly understood this movement beyond aesthetics: 'oh that's the dramatic Tchaikovsky music, Jane Austen novel, guy standing over a foggy cliff era.' But reading this description online really resonated with me: Romanticism reflected a crisis i"
STEMcel doomer thoughts · u/ImNotHereToMakeBFFs · ↑510 · 2023-03-05
"I've had 3 units in 3 separate classes about the Harlem renaissance and been assigned the same Kimberle Crenshaw essay 4 times, but learned essentially nothing about major European movements like romanticism or literary modernism."
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