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Transition to Romanticism

Author: Ian McConnell
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Terms to Know
Romanticism

A transformative late 18th-century intellectual and artistic movement originating in Europe; characterized by imagination, exaltation of the common man, and appreciation of nature.

Sublime

An aesthetic quality in nature during the 18th-century, distinct from beauty, expressing awe and fear simultaneously.

The Exotic

Foreign, unusual, and excitingly strange.