Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 5. The Romantic School in France

Book excerpt: This book describes the first great literary movement of the nineteenth century. It also describes the germinating and growing reaction, first elucidating its nature, then following it to its climax. It states that the liberal views of the nineteenth century are not always similar to those of the eighteenth, or that its literary forms or scientific ideas ever hear the eighteenth-century stamp.