What Do We Expect To Find In Romantic Literature?

... What Do We Expect To Find In Romantic Literature? Libertarianism Many of the libertarian and abolitionist movements of the late 18th and early 19th centuries were represented by the romantic philosophy-the desire to be free of convention and tyranny, the new emphasis on the rights and dignity of the individual. Just as the insistence on rational, formal, and conventional subject matter that had typified the neoclassicism era before it was bound to experience reversal, the authoritarian regimes that had encouraged and sustained neoclassicism in the arts were inevitably subjected to popular revolutions. Political and social causes became dominant themes in romantic poetry and prose throughout the Western world, producing many still pertinent, vital human documents. The year 1848, in which the Continent was wracked by political upheaval, in fact marked the flood tide of European romanticism in Italy, Austria, Germany, and France. In William Tell (1826), by the German dramatist Friedrich von

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