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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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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The Great Unknown literaryMovement Romanticism
Odilon Redon influencedBy Romanticism
Heinrich Heine movement Romanticism
Nature influencedBy Romanticism
subject surface form: Nature (essay)
The American Scholar influencedBy Romanticism
Thomas Carlyle movement Romanticism
A Psalm of Life literaryMovement Romanticism
Robert Burns movement Romanticism
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe influenced Romanticism
this entity surface form: European Romanticism
Mary: A Fiction movement Romanticism
Mary Shelley movement Romanticism
Augustan literature influenced Romanticism
this entity surface form: English Romanticism
Essays: Second Series influencedBy Romanticism
"Paul Revere's Ride" literaryMovement Romanticism
subject surface form: Paul Revere's Ride
Aestheticism influencedBy Romanticism
The Blessed Damozel influencedBy Romanticism
The Germ influencedBy Romanticism
Surrealism influencedBy Romanticism
William Cullen Bryant movement Romanticism
Manfred influencedBy Romanticism
this entity surface form: German Romanticism
Manfred movement Romanticism
Ford Madox Brown movement Romanticism
Ford Madox Brown influencedBy Romanticism
this entity surface form: German Romanticism
Johan Sebastian Welhaven movement Romanticism
The Bells literaryMovement Romanticism
Peter Schlemihl influencedLiteraryTradition Romanticism
this entity surface form: German Romanticism
Peter Schlemihl literaryPeriod Romanticism
Robert Schumann movement Romanticism
Ich kann’s nicht fassen, nicht glauben workPeriod Romanticism
this entity surface form: Romantic era
An meinem Herzen, an meiner Brust historicalPeriod Romanticism
this entity surface form: Romantic era
Romantic Lied stylisticOrigin Romanticism
Romantic Lied associatedWithMovement Romanticism
this entity surface form: German Romanticism
Edgar movement Romanticism
subject surface form: Edgar Allan Poe
Gustav Mahler movement Romanticism
this entity surface form: late Romanticism
Victor Hugo movement Romanticism
"Notre-Dame de Paris" (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame) literaryMovement Romanticism
subject surface form: Notre-Dame de Paris
Caroline movement Romanticism
subject surface form: Caroline von Humboldt
this entity surface form: German Romanticism
Hyperion influencedBy Romanticism
this entity surface form: German Romanticism
Sir Walter Scott movement Romanticism
The Cask of Amontillado literaryMovement Romanticism
this entity surface form: Dark Romanticism
Lenore literaryMovement Romanticism
subject surface form: Lenore (poem)