Romance and Romanticism
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Support the Industrial Revolutions on Patreon: www.Patreon.com/indrevpodThe first of two episodes devoted to the cultural changes underway in the 18th and 19th Centuries, thanks (at least in part) to the Industrial Revolution. In Part 1, we’ll be talking about how romance became a more important part of marriage and how sexual mores changed with economic growth, urbanization, and labor reform. In Part 2, we shift our focus to the art and literature of the time and how the movement known as “Romanticism” sought to fill the spiritual and emotional voids that increasing material well-being could not.
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