Does Romanticism Lead to Consumerism?

My argument, here, borrows from the theory of Jean Baudrillard:

Romanticism emphasizes the supremacy of the individual’s internal world (“interiority”) over both nature and society. The romantic “I” is expansive, but also solipsistic. Think of Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself.” On the one hand, it contains multitudes, on the other hand, there’s a megaloman…