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Romanticism is the term applied to the literary and artistic movements of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The movement came as a result of the gradual rebellion against the prescribed rules of the Enlightenment era that emphasized the use of reason ....

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.... the individual as a great source of literary inspiration, because like everything else occurring naturally the individual is part of nature. The romantics stand as ambassadors of intuition and defenders of the heart, challenging the supremacy of the reign of reason; willing to resign themselves to nature, solitude, and perhaps even to the melancholia of alienation. They also take a stand to never relinquish the sovereignty of their own souls and passions to the rules of reason emphasized in the enlightenment age. A literary writer like Jean Rousseau defends the uniqueness of the individual when he emphasizes self-absorption and opposes self-judgement ....