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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The Lightning-Rod Man literaryMovement American Romanticism
The Bell-Tower literaryMovement American Romanticism
“The Portent” literaryMovement American Romanticism
subject surface form: The Portent
“Shiloh: A Requiem” literaryMovement American Romanticism
subject surface form: Shiloh: A Requiem
“Malvern Hill” literaryMovement American Romanticism
subject surface form: Malvern Hill
“The House-top” literaryMovement American Romanticism
subject surface form: The House-top
“A Utilitarian View of the Monitor’s Fight” literaryMovement American Romanticism
subject surface form: A Utilitarian View of the Monitor’s Fight
“The Conflict of Convictions” literaryMovement American Romanticism
subject surface form: The Conflict of Convictions
“The Battle for the Mississippi” literaryMovement American Romanticism
subject surface form: The Battle for the Mississippi
“The Stone Fleet” literaryMovement American Romanticism
subject surface form: The Stone Fleet
“The Surrender at Appomattox” literaryMovement American Romanticism
subject surface form: The Surrender at Appomattox
The Tartarus of Maids literaryMovement American Romanticism
Beat! Beat! Drums! literaryMovement American Romanticism
Cavalry Crossing a Ford literaryMovement American Romanticism
Dirge for Two Veterans literaryMovement American Romanticism
First O Songs for a Prelude literaryMovement American Romanticism
Song of the Banner at Daybreak literaryMovement American Romanticism
City of Ships literaryMovement American Romanticism
How Solemn as One by One literaryMovement American Romanticism
Adieu to a Soldier literaryMovement American Romanticism
Reconciliation literaryMovement American Romanticism
Book IV literaryMovement American Romanticism
subject surface form: Book IV (Clarel)
The Piazza literaryMovement American Romanticism
On the Beach at Night Alone literaryMovement American Romanticism
After the Sea-Ship literaryMovement American Romanticism
Walt Whitman poem "The Untold Want" literaryMovement American Romanticism
subject surface form: The Untold Want
The Skeleton in Armor literaryMovement American Romanticism
The Light of Stars literaryMovement American Romanticism
The Arsenal at Springfield literaryMovement American Romanticism
The Reaper and the Flowers literaryMovement American Romanticism
collected poems of William Cullen Bryant literaryMovement American Romanticism
subject surface form: Collected Poems of William Cullen Bryant
Usher family literaryMovement American Romanticism
the Usher bloodline literaryMovement American Romanticism
subject surface form: Usher bloodline
poem "Evangeline" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow literaryMovement American Romanticism
subject surface form: Evangeline
Knickerbocker writers literaryMovement American Romanticism
The Balloon-Hoax literaryMovement American Romanticism
Reuben Bourne literaryMovement American Romanticism
Dorcas Malvin literaryMovement American Romanticism
Pyncheon family literaryMovement American Romanticism
Song of the Chattahoochee literaryMovement American Romanticism
poem "Barbara Frietchie" by John Greenleaf Whittier literaryMovement American Romanticism
subject surface form: Barbara Frietchie