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What are the principal ideas of romanticism? how are these reflected in art and literature?

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the rise of nation-states as defining social and geographic entities
increasing geographic and social mobility, with more people moving to cities & the growth of a literate middle class,
new technologies dependent on power from fossil fuels (trains, steamships, industrial printing)
longer life-spans and rising standards of living enable ideas or values including individualism, imagination. idealization of childhood, families, love, nature, and the past.
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