Title: terms & themes
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Content: Thus Romanticism is the historical period of literature in which modern readers most begin to see a reflection of themselves and their own modern conflicts and desires. The Romantic period has passed, but its styles and values still thrive today in popular forms and familiar attitudes, e.g.: feelings, emotions, and imagination take priority over logic and facts ("Anything you want you can have if you only want it enough." cf. romance narrative)
belief in children's innocence and wisdom; youth as a golden age; adulthood as corruption and betrayal
nature as beauty and truth, esp. the sense of nature as the sublime (god-like awesomeness mixing ecstatic pleasure mixed with pain, beauty mixed with terror)
heroic individualism; the individual separate from the masses
"outsiders" as representatives of special worth excluded by rigid societies or irrational norms
nostalgia for the past
desire or will as personal motivation
intensification, excess, and extremes (see Romantic rhetoric)
common people idealized as dependable source of true common sense and sentiment
idealized or abstract settings; characters as symbolic types
the gothic as nightmare world of intense emotions and complex psychology
Any of these qualities may be associated with Romanticism, but none of them defines or limits Romanticism absolutely.