American Romanticism

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artistic movement literary movement

American Romanticism was a 19th-century literary and artistic movement in the United States that emphasized individualism, emotion, nature, and the imagination, often exploring the supernatural and the sublime.

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All labels observed (11)

Label	Occurrences
American Romanticism canonical	288
Dark Romanticism	3
American Romantic literature	2
American Romantic literary tradition	1
American Romantic painting	1
American Romantic period	1
American Romanticism (via Washington Irving)	1
American Romanticism in literature	1
American romantic movement	1
Hudson River School	1
Romanticism	1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	artistic movement ⓘ literary movement ⓘ
associatedArtMovement	Hudson River School ⓘ
coreIdea	celebration of democratic ideals ⓘ celebration of the self ⓘ critique of industrialization ⓘ emphasis on intuition over reason ⓘ exploration of psychological depth ⓘ focus on the common man ⓘ interest in folklore and legend ⓘ interest in the exotic and distant ⓘ reverence for wilderness ⓘ valorization of subjective experience ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
endTime	late 19th century ⓘ
genre	essay ⓘ fiction ⓘ landscape painting ⓘ painting ⓘ poetry ⓘ
hasPart	Gothic literature ⓘ surface form: Dark Romanticism Transcendentalism ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
literaryPeriod	American Renaissance ⓘ
mainFocus	emotion ⓘ imagination ⓘ individualism ⓘ nature ⓘ the sublime ⓘ the supernatural ⓘ
movementInfluencedBy	Romanticism ⓘ surface form: British Romanticism Romanticism ⓘ surface form: European Romanticism Romanticism ⓘ surface form: German Romanticism
notableAuthor	Edgar Allan Poe ⓘ Emily Dickinson ⓘ Henry David Thoreau ⓘ Herman Melville ⓘ James Fenimore Cooper ⓘ Nathaniel Hawthorne ⓘ Ralph Waldo Emerson ⓘ Walt Whitman ⓘ Washington Irving ⓘ
notablePainter	Asher B. Durand ⓘ Frederic Edwin Church ⓘ Thomas Cole ⓘ
opposedTo	Age of Enlightenment ⓘ surface form: Enlightenment rationalism Neoclassicism ⓘ
relatedConcept	Gothic fiction ⓘ sublime in nature ⓘ
startTime	early 19th century ⓘ

Referenced by (301)

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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow → literaryMovement → American Romanticism ⓘ

Washington Irving → movement → American Romanticism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Romanticism

Hudson Valley → artMovementAssociatedWith → American Romanticism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Hudson River School

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. → literaryMovement → American Romanticism ⓘ

Fireside Poets → period → American Romanticism ⓘ

The Chambered Nautilus → literaryMovement → American Romanticism ⓘ

Walden; or, Life in the Woods → literaryPeriod → American Romanticism ⓘ

Geoffrey Crayon → associatedWithAuthor → American Romanticism ⓘ

Old Ironsides → associatedWith → American Romanticism ⓘ

Romanticism → relatedMovement → American Romanticism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Dark Romanticism

Nathaniel Hawthorne → movement → American Romanticism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Dark Romanticism

John Greenleaf Whittier → movement → American Romanticism ⓘ

American Renaissance → hasPart → American Romanticism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Dark Romanticism

Rip Van Winkle → literaryPeriod → American Romanticism ⓘ

The Spectre Bridegroom → literaryPeriod → American Romanticism ⓘ

The Mutability of Literature → literaryMovement → American Romanticism ⓘ

The Art of Book-Making → literaryMovement → American Romanticism ⓘ

The Inn Kitchen → literaryMovement → American Romanticism ⓘ

Moby-Dick → literaryMovement → American Romanticism ⓘ

The Wife → literaryMovement → American Romanticism ⓘ

The Voyage → literaryMovement → American Romanticism ⓘ

The Scarlet Letter → literaryMovement → American Romanticism ⓘ

The Devil and Tom Walker → literaryMovement → American Romanticism ⓘ

The Angler → literaryMovement → American Romanticism ⓘ

The Pride of the Village → literaryMovement → American Romanticism ⓘ

The Widow and Her Son → literaryMovement → American Romanticism ⓘ

Frederic → associatedWith → American Romanticism ⓘ

subject surface form: Frederic Edwin Church

Walt Whitman → movement → American Romanticism ⓘ

Herman Melville → movement → American Romanticism ⓘ

Roscoe → literaryMovement → American Romanticism ⓘ

Society and Solitude → literaryPeriod → American Romanticism ⓘ

The Courtship of Miles Standish → literaryMovement → American Romanticism ⓘ

The Village Blacksmith → literaryMovement → American Romanticism ⓘ

Tales of a Wayside Inn → literaryMovement → American Romanticism ⓘ

The Wreck of the Hesperus → literaryMovement → American Romanticism ⓘ

Evangeline → literaryMovement → American Romanticism ⓘ

Edward Tyrrel Channing → era → American Romanticism ⓘ

William Cullen Bryant → movement → American Romanticism ⓘ

Baltus Van Tassel → literaryPeriod → American Romanticism ⓘ

The Raven → literaryMovement → American Romanticism ⓘ

The Tell-Tale Heart → literaryMovement → American Romanticism ⓘ

The Purloined Letter → literaryMovement → American Romanticism ⓘ

A Dream Within a Dream → literaryPeriod → American Romanticism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Romantic period

Annabel Lee → literaryMovement → American Romanticism ⓘ

Edgar → movement → American Romanticism ⓘ

subject surface form: Edgar Allan Poe

The Black Cat → literaryMovement → American Romanticism ⓘ

The Biglow Papers → literaryMovement → American Romanticism ⓘ

A Fable for Critics → critiques → American Romanticism ⓘ

A Fable for Critics → movement → American Romanticism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Romantic literature