The Romantics: everything you wanted to know
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What's the Story of the Romantic Novel?
There are different answers for different figures in this movement I'd say. For someone like Shelley and Mary Shelley, it's about living outside kind of traditional social and legal structures. Another very complicated answer relates to the case of William Blake, who doesn't really fit into any particular school but also lives in a highly unconventional way. So it's all about being somewhat unconventional then? Yeah, absolutely.
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