Editing Romanticism (section)

===Historiography===
[[Historiography|History writing]] was very strongly, and many would say harmfully, influenced by Romanticism.<ref>{{cite book|author=E. Sreedharan|title=A Textbook of Historiography, 500 B.C. to A.D. 2000|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jJVoi3PIejwC&pg=PR9|year=2004|publisher=Orient Blackswan|pages=128–68|isbn=978-81-250-2657-0}}</ref> In England, [[Thomas Carlyle]] was a highly influential essayist who turned historian; he both invented and exemplified the phrase "hero-worship",<ref>in his published lectures ''[[On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History]]'' of 1841</ref> lavishing largely uncritical praise on strong leaders such as [[Oliver Cromwell]], [[Frederick the Great]] and [[Napoleon]]. Romantic nationalism had a largely negative effect on the writing of history in the 19th century, as each nation tended to [[Historiography and nationalism|produce its own version of history]], and the critical attitude, even cynicism, of earlier historians was often replaced by a tendency to create romantic stories with clearly distinguished heroes and villains.<ref>{{cite book|author=Ceri Crossley|title=French Historians and Romanticism: Thierry, Guizot, the Saint-Simonians, Quinet, Michelet|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ovaIAgAAQBAJ|year=2002|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-97668-3}}</ref> Nationalist ideology of the period placed great emphasis on racial coherence, and the antiquity of peoples, and tended to vastly overemphasize the continuity between past periods and the present, leading to [[national mysticism]]. Much historical effort in the 20th century was devoted to combating the romantic historical myths created in the 19th century.