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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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 →
endTime	late 19th century →
genre	essay → fiction → landscape painting → painting → poetry →
hasPart	Dark Romanticism → Transcendentalism →
language	English →
literaryPeriod	American Renaissance →
mainFocus	emotion → imagination → individualism → nature → the sublime → the supernatural →
movementInfluencedBy	British Romanticism → European Romanticism → 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	Enlightenment rationalism → Neoclassicism →
relatedConcept	Gothic fiction → sublime in nature →
startTime	early 19th century →

Referenced by (90)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
A Long Fatal Love Chase → Annabel Lee → Bracebridge Hall; or, The Humorists → Crossing Brooklyn Ferry → Evangeline → I Sing the Body Electric → I heard a Fly buzz—when I died → Moby-Dick → Mosses from an Old Manse → Nicholas Vedder → Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking → Roscoe → Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl → Tales of a Wayside Inn → The Angler → The Art of Book-Making → The Barefoot Boy → The Biglow Papers → The Black Cat → The Blithedale Romance → The Cask of Amontillado → The Chambered Nautilus → The Courtship of Miles Standish → The Devil and Tom Walker → The Gold-Bug → The House of the Seven Gables → The Inn Kitchen → The Last of the Mohicans → The Legend of Sleepy Hollow → The Marble Faun → The Minister’s Black Veil → The Mutability of Literature → The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket → The Pathfinder → The Pilot → The Pioneers → The Prairie → The Pride of the Village → The Purloined Letter → The Raven → The Scarlet Letter → The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. → The Sleepers → The Tell-Tale Heart → The Village Blacksmith → The Vision of Sir Launfal → The Voyage → The Widow and Her Son → The Wife → The Wreck of the Hesperus → There’s a certain Slant of light → Twice-Told Tales → Young Goodman Brown → the Baron →	literaryMovement
A Fable for Critics ("American Romantic literature") → Because I could not stop for Death → Edgar Allan Poe → Herman Melville → Hope is the thing with feathers → John Greenleaf Whittier → Nathaniel Hawthorne ("Dark Romanticism") → Walt Whitman → Washington Irving ("Romanticism") → When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d → William Cullen Bryant →	movement
A Dream Within a Dream ("American Romantic period") → Baltus Van Tassel → Captain Ahab → Dame Van Winkle → Hester Prynne → Rip Van Winkle → Society and Solitude → The Spectre Bridegroom → Walden; or, Life in the Woods →	literaryPeriod
Frederic Edwin Church → Old Ironsides →	associatedWith
American Renaissance → American Renaissance ("Dark Romanticism") →	hasPart
Fireside Poets → O Captain! My Captain! →	period
Hudson Valley ("Hudson River School") →	artMovementAssociatedWith
Geoffrey Crayon →	associatedWithAuthor
Ticknor and Fields →	associatedWithMovement
A Fable for Critics →	critiques
Edward Tyrrel Channing →	era
Pequod →	genreContext
Hyperion →	hasLiteraryMovement
Roger Chillingworth →	literaryMovementOfWork
I taste a liquor never brewed →	poeticTradition
Romanticism ("Dark Romanticism") →	relatedMovement