Romanticism

By the end of the 19th century, a new philosophy called Romanticism developed. It stressed that only a person's inner emotions and feelings were important. This led many of the leading Romantics to rebel against some norms of the society; they grew long hair and beards and dressed in non-conventional ways. Romantics led to a revival in medieval architecture. Large neo-Gothic cathedrals and other public buildings were built. The romantics wrote a body of literature that exalted the past, in doing so, they helped feed the growing support for nationalism. Romantics loved poetry, and their poetry reflected the love of nature among the naturalists.