The Age of the Enlightenment concentrated on mathematics and reason, which pushed for rationality and the investigation of the universe. However Romantic study involved a greater emotion and British and German writers expressed this attitude. Romanticism is a term that is loosely applied to literary and artistic movements of the late 18th and 19th centuries. Romanticism, in general, is the attitude or state of mind that focuses on the individual, the subjective, the irrational, the …showed first 75 words of 485 total…

…showed last 75 words of 485 total…of the 18th century, it transformed poetry, the novel, drama, painting, sculpture, all forms of concert music (especially opera), and ballet. It was deeply connected with the politics of the time, echoing people's fears, hopes, and aspirations. It was the voice of revolution at the beginning of the 19th century. This last shift was the result of the triumph of the class which invented, fostered, and adopted as its own the Romantic Movement: the bourgeoisie.