As you've seen, Romanticism was very much a reaction against the emphasis on reason that was so important to the Enlightenment. It was also a reaction against the Industrial Revolution with its factories and pollution and overcrowded living conditions that, as you'll see in a later lesson, was starting to spread across Europe. Why might Romanticism have been at odds with such developments?

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Nyasia Graham

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26 April, 22:21

As you've seen, Romanticism was very much a reaction against the emphasis on reason that was so important to the Enlightenment. It was also a reaction against the Industrial Revolution with its factories and pollution and overcrowded living conditions that, as you'll see in a later lesson, was starting to spread across Europe. Why might Romanticism have been at odds with such developments?

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Gerald Rollins · Answer 1

Romanticism emphasized sentiment, freedom, and imagination as a critical authority.

Explanation:

Having emerged in the context of the French Revolution, it embraced ideals against the aristocracy of the Enlightenment and the scientific rationalization of nature.

The opposition to the Industrial Revolution emerged from a need to express people's desire to escape from the negative effects of industrialism.