The attitude or intellectual orientation that characterized many works of literature, painting, music, architecture, criticism, and historiography in Western civilization over a period from the late 18th to the mid-19th century.
    

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The grave of John Keats in the Protestant cemetery of Rome, Italy. Etching by J.L. Chapman, 1863.

The romantic conception of life : science and philosophy in the age of Goethe / Robert J. Richards.

Romantic science and the experience of self : transatlantic crosscurrents from William James to Oliver Sacks / Martin Halliwell.

The female thermometer : eighteenth-century culture and the invention of the uncanny / Terry Castle.

Der Physiker des Romantikerkreises Johann Wilhelm Ritter in seinen Briefen an den Verleger Carl Friedrich Ernst Frommann / herausgegeben und mit Kommentaren versehen von Klaus Richter.

Monstrosities : bodies and British romanticism / Paul Youngquist.

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The romantic conception of life : science and philosophy in the age of Goethe / Robert J. Richards.

Romantic science and the experience of self : transatlantic crosscurrents from William James to Oliver Sacks / Martin Halliwell.

The female thermometer : eighteenth-century culture and the invention of the uncanny / Terry Castle.

Der Physiker des Romantikerkreises Johann Wilhelm Ritter in seinen Briefen an den Verleger Carl Friedrich Ernst Frommann / herausgegeben und mit Kommentaren versehen von Klaus Richter.

Monstrosities : bodies and British romanticism / Paul Youngquist.