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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Chapter XVI: Leave-Takings literaryMovement American Romanticism
Chapter XXIV: The Masqueraders literaryMovement American Romanticism
Chapter XXX: Conclusion literaryPeriod American Romanticism
The Gray Champion literaryMovement American Romanticism
Sunday at Home literaryMovement American Romanticism
The May-Pole of Merry Mount literaryMovement American Romanticism
The Gentle Boy literaryMovement American Romanticism
A Rill from the Town-Pump literaryMovement American Romanticism
The Great Carbuncle literaryMovement American Romanticism
The Prophetic Pictures literaryMovement American Romanticism
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Sights from a Steeple literaryMovement American Romanticism
The Hollow of the Three Hills literaryMovement American Romanticism
Fancy’s Show-Box literaryMovement American Romanticism
Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment literaryMovement American Romanticism
The Wedding-Knell literaryMovement American Romanticism
The Ambitious Guest literaryMovement American Romanticism
The White Old Maid literaryMovement American Romanticism
The Seven Vagabonds literaryMovement American Romanticism
The Toll-Gatherer’s Day literaryMovement American Romanticism
The Village Uncle literaryMovement American Romanticism
The Wives of the Dead literaryMovement American Romanticism
The Man of Adamant literaryMovement American Romanticism
The Christmas Banquet literaryMovement American Romanticism
The New Adam and Eve literaryMovement American Romanticism
Egotism; or, The Bosom-Serpent literaryMovement American Romanticism
The Celestial Railroad literaryMovement American Romanticism
Rappaccini's Daughter literaryMovement American Romanticism
The Birth-Mark literaryMovement American Romanticism
The Artist of the Beautiful literaryMovement American Romanticism
The Hall of Fantasy literaryMovement American Romanticism
The Procession of Life literaryMovement American Romanticism
Drowne's Wooden Image literaryMovement American Romanticism
The Intelligence Office literaryMovement American Romanticism
Roger Malvin's Burial literaryMovement American Romanticism
Earth's Holocaust literaryMovement American Romanticism
The Old Apple Dealer literaryMovement American Romanticism
The Great Stone Face literaryMovement American Romanticism
Feathertop literaryMovement American Romanticism
The Snow-Image literaryMovement American Romanticism
“The Custom-House” introduction to “The Scarlet Letter” literaryMovement American Romanticism
subject surface form: "The Custom-House" introduction to "The Scarlet Letter"
Cornelius Mathews movement American Romanticism
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