The Romance of Business: Ayn Rand Romanticism

Romanticism and the Philosophy of Travel

The importance of literary travel writing can be partly explained by the qualities it shares with imaginative literature featuring the concepts of Romanticism. Writers from Twain and Steinbeck to Thoreau and Wordsworth have depicted the human bent towards adventure and the unknown and, especially in rapidly developing societies, the urge to return to simplicity and the core values of life and t...

The Romance of Tuberculosis

A Study of English Romanticism

The Rand Myth

Many people believe that Objectivism is simply a movement composed of selfish, deranged, arrogant anti-environmentalists. They are right. The fact is, Objectivists care little for their fellow man and less for the facts. The staple of Objectivism is not science, but hollow pseudo-philosophic anti-intellectual claptrap and outright lies. All designed to trick well meaning people into accepting a...

Evangelical Christianity and Romanticism

Dr. Bebbington is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Stirling, Scotland. This article is the second in a series of three entitled 'Evangelical Christianity and Western Culture Since the Eighteenth Century' and was presented by the author in the Staley Lectures at Regent College in April1989. (The first lecture in the series was published in the December 1989 issue of Crux.) The lec...