These books reflected the more exuberant aspects of Romanticism, a literary and artistic movement that focused on the expression of the emotional and imaginative life of the individual. ... It is at this point that Romanticism, according to Evans' investigation of Flaubert's personal convictions, might be considered a disease. ... Evans also argues that Flaubuert, in opposition to Romanticism, is suggesting through his linguistic references that Romanticism is a sort of disease. He hints towards his disgust through Emma, who fuels her outlandish desires by indulging in literar...

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At the peak of the 19th century there was a "revolutionary" shift and rise in the popularity of writers rejecting the concept of romanticism in their novellas and novels. According to the Encyclopedia Brittanica; "Romanticism emphasized the individual, the subjective, the irrational, the imaginative, the personal, the spontaneous, the emotional, the visionary, and the transcendental.... Romanticism was a convenient way of writing, and thinking due to the traditional expectancies people had based on their religious based knowledge and replacing the harshness of society with an i...

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