Pre-Romanticism
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Pre-Romanticism was an 18th-century literary and artistic trend that anticipated Romanticism by emphasizing emotion, individual sensibility, and a fascination with nature, melancholy, and the sublime.
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artistic movement
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cultural trend → literary movement → |
| anticipates |
Romanticism
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| developedIn |
Europe
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France → Germany → Great Britain → |
| emphasizes |
feeling over reason
→
imagination → individual experience → |
| followedBy |
Romanticism
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| hasCharacteristic |
cult of sensibility
→
emphasis on emotion → emphasis on inner life → fascination with nature → individual sensibility → interest in night and ruins → interest in the picturesque → interest in the sublime → melancholy → reaction against classical rules → reaction against rationalism → sentimentalism → subjectivity → taste for the gothic → |
| hasDomain |
literature
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music → visual arts → |
| hasTimePeriod |
18th century
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| historicalContext |
late Enlightenment Europe
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| influenced |
Romantic art
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Romantic literature → |
| influencedBy |
Enlightenment
→
Neoclassicism → |
| precededBy |
Neoclassicism
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| relatedMovement |
Graveyard school of poetry
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Sentimentalism → Sturm und Drang → |
| typicalTheme |
conflict between feeling and social norms
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meditation on death → nature as refuge → nostalgia → solitude → the sublime in nature → |
| usesForm |
epistolary novel
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gothic novel → meditative poetry → |
Referenced by (2)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
|---|---|
|
Thomas Gray
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movement |
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Sturm und Drang
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relatedTo |