Three great revolutions rocked the world around 1800. The first two
- the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution - have
inspired the greatest volume of literature. But the third - the
romantic revolution - was perhaps the most fundamental and
far-reaching. From it derive virtually all the cultural axioms of
the modern world: the stress on genius, originality and individual
expression; the dominance of music; the obsession with sexuality,
dreams and the subconscious; the public as patron; the worship of
art and artists. Tim Blanning traces the evolution of romanticism
from Rousseau's conversion-experience on the road to Vincennes in
1749. Contrary to received wisdom, Blanning argues that the 18th
century was an intensely religious age, but one increasingly
dissatisfied with organised religion. Art and artists began to fill
this void. By the mid-19th century, realism had made a comeback but
fin-de-siecle and post-modernism reasserted the romantic agenda.
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