Define the term Romanticism. How did it facilitate the promotion of na

1.	Define the term Romanticism. How did it facilitate the promotion of nationalist sentiment? or How did Romanticism pave the way for Nationalism in Europe ? Explain.
Answer» Romanticism was a cultural movement which sought to develop a particular form of nationalists sentiments in the following ways : (i) Critical approach towards reason and science : Romantic artists criticized the glorification of reason and science and focused on emotions, intuitions and mystical feelings. (ii) Folk culture as the spirit of the nation: Johann Gottfried Herder claimed that through folk songs, folk poetry and folk dances, the true spirit of a nation could be popularised. (iii) Emphasis on vernacular language: They gave emphasis on vernacular language to recover the national spirit and to carry the modem nationalist message to large audience who were mostly illiterate.

Define the term Romanticism. How did it facilitate the promotion of nationalist sentiment? or How did Romanticism pave the way for Nationalism in Europe ? Explain.

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Romanticism was a cultural movement which sought to develop a particular form of nationalists sentiments in the following ways :
(i) Critical approach towards reason and science :
Romantic artists criticized the glorification of reason and science and focused on emotions, intuitions and mystical feelings.

(ii) Folk culture as the spirit of the nation: Johann Gottfried Herder claimed that through folk songs, folk poetry and folk dances, the true spirit of a nation could be popularised.
(iii) Emphasis on vernacular language: They gave emphasis on vernacular language to recover the national spirit and to carry the modem nationalist message to large audience who were mostly illiterate.

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