History of Romanticism, that amorphous movement celebrating darkness, individuality, and wholeness

Review of The Romantic Revolution: A History by Tim Blanning

From the moment that Rousseau rebelled against the Enlightenment – with its assurances that everything could be known and arbitrated by reason – a new and unruly movement emerged. The Romantics would challenge what we can know, how we should study the world and ourselves, and questioned even the precepts of happiness and the "good life". As Blanning pro…