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As an aside, I still have no idea how these books ended up making romantic love fashionable. The central example, Werther, is about a man who tries to get a wom
by cousin_it 6y ago
As an aside, I still have no idea how these books ended up making romantic love fashionable. The central example, Werther, is about a man who tries to get a woman away from her husband (while she's having none of it) and then kills himself. And the authorial voice clearly treats Werther as sad and misguided. Why did people take so strongly to it?
- watwut 6y agoThe word "romantic" changed meaning. Romantic period of literature is not same thing as romance a genre. The romantic period was about strong emotions in general, solitude, beauty of nature and host of other love unrelated things. Suicide implies stronger emotions then kiss. Love or passion was just one thing. Romance as genre is something different.