""romance" as an inexpensive subfusc of self-awareness?"--p. 712....speaker for or agin it?

[Mark Kohut]

And who is speaking? "we of the futurity" who can comment
on the [whole] history of human emotion?...Or, "just' a narrator?...Chums' narrator?
MK 
Romanticism
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"Romantics" redirects here. For the band, see The Romantics.
 
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich
Romanticism is a complex, self-contradictory artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated around the middle of the 18th century in Western Europe, and gained strength during the Industrial Revolution. It was partly a revolt against aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature, and was embodied most strongly in the visual arts, music and literature. The movement stressed strong emotion as a source of aesthetic experience, placing new emphasis on such emotions as trepidation, horror, and the awe experienced in confronting the sublimity in untamed nature and its qualities that are "picturesque", both new aesthetic categories. It elevated folk art and custom, as well as arguing for a "natural" epistemology of human activities as conditioned by nature in the form of language, custom and usage. The name "romantic" itself comes from the term "romance" which
 is a genre of prose or poetic heroic narrative originating in medieval literature. Romanticism reached beyond the rational and Classicist ideal models to elevate medievalism and elements of art and narrative perceived to be authentically medieval, and to embrace as well the exotic, unfamiliar and distant in modes more authentic than chinoiserie.
The ideologies and events of the French Revolution, rooted in Romanticism, affected the direction it was to take, and the confines of the Industrial Revolution also had their influence on Romanticism, which was in part an escape from modern realities; indeed, in the second half of the nineteenth century, 
 
Subfusc:
a. dusky drab; n. formal academic dress at Oxford University. 
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