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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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 Province House Tales literaryMovement American Romanticism