Romanticism
A late-18th and early-19th century intellectual and artistic movement that exalted individual emotion, imagination, nature, and the heroic struggle against social constraints — a reaction against the rationalism of the Enlightenment and the disciplines of neoclassicism. Romantic writers like Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Percy Shelley, and Mary Shelley elevated personal passion and self-realisation over conformity to social or economic convention; the movement also reframed love and marriage as matters of individual feeling rather than family alliance, and produced the Byronic hero archetype.