Meaning of Romantic and Romanticism

The word romantic first became current in 18th-century English and originally meant “romance-like,” that is, resembling the strange, fanciful, mythical character of medieval ______

The word came to be associated with interest in the Middle Ages, the emerging taste for wild scenery, ruins and other “sublime” locations, a tendency reflected in the increasing emphasis in aesthetic theory on the sublime as opposed to the ______

It elevated the individual, the passions, and the inner life, embracing a more dramatic, personal, and emotional style--even to the point of ______ emotion

In Europe, Romanticism flourished in England, ______, and France

During the 18th century, in a reaction against Enlightenment ideas, feeling began to be considered more important than reason, both in literature and in ______

Romanticism conveys notions of sentiment and sentimentality, a visionary or idealistic lack of ______

Romanticism appeared in conflict with the ______

It reflected a crisis in Enlightenment thought itself, a crisis which shook the comfortable 18th century philosophy out of his intellectual ______

The Romantics were conscious of their unique ______

It was self-consciousness which appears as one of the key elements of Romanticism ______