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.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf artistic movement
cultural movement
intellectual movement
literary movement
associatedWith Alexander Pushkin
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
exploration of inner experience
idealization of nature
interest in the exotic and distant
primacy of feeling over reason
emphasizes emotion
imagination
individualism
intense feeling
nature
subjectivity
the medieval past
the sublime
the supernatural
field historiography
literature
music
painting
philosophy
political thought
hasKeyConcept melancholy
nostalgia
reverie
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
surface form: the Byronic hero

the Gothic
the picturesque
the romantic hero
the uncanny
influenced aestheticism
modern fantasy literature
national romanticism
symbolism
transcendentalism
mainRegion Europe
North America
reactsAgainst Enlightenment rationalism
industrialization
mechanistic worldview
neoclassicism
urbanization
relatedMovement American Romanticism
surface form: Dark Romanticism

Gothic Revival
Sturm und Drang
timePeriod 19th century
late 18th century
values authenticity
creative genius
emotional intensity
folk culture
national identity
originality
spontaneity

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works of Victor Hugo literaryMovement Romanticism
subject surface form: Les Misérables
works of Victor Hugo literaryMovement Romanticism
subject surface form: Les Orientales
works of Victor Hugo literaryMovement Romanticism
subject surface form: Hernani
Monaldi (novel) literaryMovement Romanticism
subject surface form: Monaldi
Hakon Jarl literaryMovement Romanticism
Nordens Guder literaryMovement Romanticism
N. F. S. Grundtvig influencedBy Romanticism
Mariana (poem) literaryMovement Romanticism
Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil (1818 poem) literaryMovement Romanticism
subject surface form: Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil
Lorenzaccio literaryMovement Romanticism
Act II of Manfred literaryMovement Romanticism
Ligeia literaryMovement Romanticism
poem "Junge Liebe" by Otto Inkermann (pseudonym C. O. Sternau) literaryMovement Romanticism
subject surface form: Junge Liebe
Neopaganism influencedBy Romanticism
Les Martyrs literaryMovement Romanticism
Mémoires d’outre-tombe: autobiographical narrative literaryMovement Romanticism
subject surface form: Mémoires d’outre-tombe
Pauca meae literaryMovement Romanticism
En marche literaryMovement Romanticism
L’Expiation literaryMovement Romanticism
Booz endormi literaryMovement Romanticism
La Conscience literaryMovement Romanticism
Le Satyre literaryMovement Romanticism
Les Pauvres Gens literaryMovement Romanticism
Les Djinns literaryMovement Romanticism