Download or read book Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 5. The Romantic School in France written by Georg Brandes and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-03 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.