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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