Alain de Botton is the founder and Chairman of The School of Life. He is the best-selling author of The News: A User's Manual and, most recently, The Course of Love. To fall in love with someone feels ...

To fall in love with someone feels like such a personal and spontaneous process, it can sound strange—and even rather insulting—to suggest that something else (we might call it society or culture) may ...

Romanticism describes the era of the 19th century in which artists and poets strove for individuality and originality instead of conformity. Romantics rejected the traditional aesthetic values of the ...

Call for Papers   Romanticism and Rocks ECR Research workshop - 23 October 2026 University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland) Keynote speaker: Sophie Laniel-Musitelli ( Lille)   Building on last year’s ...

About the author:Jeffrey N. Cox is the author of and is a professor of English and humanities at the University of Colorado Boulder. Book description: Jeffrey N. Cox reconsiders the history of British ...