From popular revolt to the obsession with the self, even to modern nationalism, Simon Schama explores the enduring and powerful legacy the Romantics have left on our modern world.

The main literary and artistic currents of Romanticism are well known. This volume aims uniquely to set them in their wider contexts. Thirteen distinguished contributors examine the particular ...

Romanticism, he said ... ‘emotional attitudes', is in its turn a mystical excess. The world about us grows, it is true, more and more a dance of phantom formulae on the points of dial-needles ...

Romanticism is focused on the individual, punk on the community, but the two movements are in demand again: as acts of rebellion in dark times.

When reading Polish romantic literature, you may be bewildered at how unusual it seems – especially compared to its French, English, and American versions. There may be similar themes and philosophy ...

Popular revolt. Our obsession with the self. Modern nationalism. In this series, Simon Schama reveals how these ideas, forged by the Romantics during a century-long revolution in art and culture, ...

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It feels like at least once a year, someone writes an article wondering what happened to the romantic comedy, and why we don’t make ’em like we used to. And usually, that article concludes ...