Romanticism is:
1, Writing during the period of Queen Victoria's reign includes sentimental novels.
2, Realism is the dominant fashion, but the disillusionment with the World Wars lead to new experimentation.
3. A broad intellectual and artistic movement that began in Europe as a reaction against Enlightenment rationality; it championed imagination, emotion, and the individual over reason, science, and society; looked to nature as a source for spiritual nourishment, and they believed that people are inherently good but corrupted by society.
4. Surrealistic writings embroidered in the conventions of realism.