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.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf artistic movement
cultural trend
literary movement
anticipates Romanticism
developedIn Europe
France
Germany
Great Britain
emphasizes feeling over reason
imagination
individual experience
followedBy Romanticism
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
music
visual arts
hasTimePeriod 18th century
historicalContext late Enlightenment Europe
influenced Romantic art
Romantic literature
influencedBy Enlightenment
Neoclassicism
precededBy Neoclassicism
relatedMovement Graveyard school of poetry
Sentimentalism
Sturm und Drang
typicalTheme conflict between feeling and social norms
meditation on death
nature as refuge
nostalgia
solitude
the sublime in nature
usesForm epistolary novel
gothic novel
meditative poetry

Referenced by (2)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Thomas Gray
movement
Sturm und Drang
relatedTo

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