Question

contribution of romanticism culture in spreading nationalism

Answer 1

Culture played an important role increating the idea of the nation: art and poetry, stories and musichelped express and shape nationalist feelings.Their effort was to create a sense of a shared collective heritage, acommon cultural past, as the basis of a nation.Other Romantics such as the German philosopher Johann GottfriedHerder (1744-1803) claimed that true German culture was to bediscovered among the common people – das volk. It was throughfolk songs, folk poetry and folk dances that the true spirit of thenation (volksgeist) was popularised. So collecting and recording theseforms of folk culture was essential to the project of nation-building.