American Romanticism

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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 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

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Specimen Days literaryMovement American Romanticism
White-Jacket literaryMovement American Romanticism
The Landlord literaryPeriod American Romanticism
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this entity surface form: American Romantic literature
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The Birds of Killingworth literaryMovement American Romanticism
The Student's Tale literaryMovement American Romanticism
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The Student literaryMovement American Romanticism
The Second Day (in later series volumes) literaryMovement American Romanticism
subject surface form: The Second Day
New England Reformers literaryPeriod American Romanticism
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Washington Allston influenced American Romanticism
this entity surface form: American Romantic painting
Thanatopsis hasInfluenceOn American Romanticism
this entity surface form: American Romantic literary tradition
To a Waterfowl literaryMovement American Romanticism
Forest Hymn literaryMovement American Romanticism
The Ages movement American Romanticism
The Death of the Flowers literaryMovement American Romanticism
A Winter Piece literaryMovement American Romanticism
The Yellow Violet literaryMovement American Romanticism
Minister D—— literaryMovement American Romanticism
The Mystery of Marie Rogêt literaryMovement American Romanticism
Madeline Usher literaryPeriod American Romanticism
The Knickerbocker group culturalMovement American Romanticism
subject surface form: Knickerbocker group
this entity surface form: American romantic movement
Prelude I literaryMovement American Romanticism
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Hollingsworth literaryPeriod American Romanticism
Zenobia literaryPeriod American Romanticism
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Chapter VII: The Convalescent literaryPeriod American Romanticism
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