Romanticism
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Romanticism was a late 18th- and 19th-century artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that emphasized emotion, individualism, imagination, and a deep appreciation of nature and the sublime in reaction against Enlightenment rationalism and industrialization.
Aliases (17)
- German Romanticism ×27
- European Romanticism ×9
- Romantic era ×5
- British Romanticism ×2
- English Romanticism ×2
- Romantic literature ×2
- Romantic period ×2
- Dark Romanticism ×1
- Early Romanticism ×1
- French Romantic movement ×1
- French Romanticism ×1
- Jena Romanticism ×1
- Romantic movement ×1
- Romanticism in architecture ×1
- Romanticism in landscape design ×1
- Spanish Romanticism ×1
- late Romanticism ×1
Statements (72)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artistic movement
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cultural movement → intellectual movement → literary movement → |
| associatedWith |
Alexander Pushkin
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Caspar David Friedrich → Eugène Delacroix → Francisco Goya → Franz Schubert → Hector Berlioz → J. M. W. Turner → Johann Wolfgang von Goethe → John Keats → Lord Byron → Ludwig van Beethoven → Novalis → Percy Bysshe Shelley → Samuel Taylor Coleridge → Victor Hugo → William Wordsworth → |
| coreIdea |
celebration of the individual
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exploration of inner experience → idealization of nature → interest in the exotic and distant → primacy of feeling over reason → |
| emphasizes |
emotion
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imagination → individualism → intense feeling → nature → subjectivity → the medieval past → the sublime → the supernatural → |
| field |
historiography
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literature → music → painting → philosophy → political thought → |
| hasKeyConcept |
melancholy
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nostalgia → reverie → the Byronic hero → the Gothic → the picturesque → the romantic hero → the uncanny → |
| influenced |
aestheticism
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modern fantasy literature → national romanticism → symbolism → transcendentalism → |
| mainRegion |
Europe
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North America → |
| reactsAgainst |
Enlightenment rationalism
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industrialization → mechanistic worldview → neoclassicism → urbanization → |
| relatedMovement |
Dark Romanticism
→
Gothic Revival → Sturm und Drang → |
| timePeriod |
19th century
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late 18th century → |
| values |
authenticity
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creative genius → emotional intensity → folk culture → national identity → originality → spontaneity → |