The Romantic Movement

by Alan Menhennet

Menhennet traces the main strands of thought and interest that preoccupy the Romantic the revolutionary attitude that is differentiated from that of writers like Byron by the lack of emphasis on individualism; the dualism of the bourgeois world and the "inner self;" the interest in language as an agency for the regeneration of the German spirit; and the concentration on folk themes and the idea of Wanderung .

276 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1981