A new genre of German literature champions emotion and experience, but some worry ‘ultra-romanticism’ is fuelling an anti-liberal movement Simon Strauss turned 17 the year Angela Merkel won her first ...

Moving from Schubert through Chopin to Liszt, the young pianist brought deep interpretative insights ...

Bliss” and “Ossian”: these are the two keywords outlining the thematic areas explored by the two scholars who have won the ...

To fall in love with someone feels like such a personal and spontaneous process, it can sound strange—and even rather insulting—to suggest that something else (we might call it society or culture) may ...

Romanticism describes the era of the 19th century in which artists and poets strove for individuality and originality instead of conformity. Romantics rejected the traditional aesthetic values of the ...

About the author:Jeffrey N. Cox is the author of and is a professor of English and humanities at the University of Colorado Boulder. Book description: Jeffrey N. Cox reconsiders the history of British ...

If you’ve watched The Nutcracker, listened to Schumann’s Kreisleriana, or read Edgar Allan Poe, you’ve encountered the influence of E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776–1822), the man who dreamed many features of ...

The Romantic generation, as we can simplify calling the people living in the first half of the 19th century, witnessed the birth of industrial production, railways and other inventions that led to the ...