The Romantic Rebellion - Course Introduction

The purpose of this course is to try to define the complex business that was Romanticism. A movement and not a style, the term derives from the Medieval word romance; a story or a narrative, and these became popular at the end of the eighteenth century. Romantic artists focused on emotion, imagination, irrationality, and man’s relationship with nature. They depicted scenes from the past, the exotic, and the supernatural and explored dark and terrible subjects.

Course Introduction