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The 195 pages that link to Romanticism in philosophy, each with the reason it gives.

• Hans Christian AndersenNarrower topic: Romantic ideas helped make wonder and inward feeling central to Andersen’s fiction.

• The Scarlet LetterNarrower topic: The novel’s attention to inward conflict and symbolic nature reflects Romantic literary concerns.

• William GodwinNarrower topic: Godwin’s political and literary ideas formed part of the intellectual climate inherited by Romantic writers.

• Cambridge ApostlesRelated: Its founding generation encountered the period’s wider debates about imagination, belief, and society.

• Carl Philipp Emanuel BachNarrower topic: Later writers heard Bach’s volatility as a precursor to Romantic musical subjectivity.

• Hudson River SchoolRelated: Romantic ideas informed the movement’s treatment of scenery as emotionally and spiritually significant.

• La SylphideNarrower topic: The ballet's conflict between ordinary life and an elusive spirit reflects Romantic preoccupations.

• Pierre de RonsardRelated: Romantic-era critics helped renew attention to Ronsard after his long decline in prestige.

• Shakespearean tragedyRelated: Romantic writers recast Shakespeare as a model of creative genius and complex character.

• The Rime of the Ancient MarinerNarrower topic: The poem’s sublime landscape and supernatural imagination belong to Romantic literature.

• Travel writingRelated: Romantic ideals made landscape and the traveler's response central subjects.

• Johan Ludvig RunebergNarrower topic: Romantic ideals inform Runeberg’s landscapes, heroic figures, and treatment of national history.

• Max ErnstRelated: Ernst drew on Romantic visions of nature and the uncanny while giving them modern, fractured forms.

• Pablo CasalsNarrower topic: Casals’s formative musical world inherited the expressive traditions of Romantic performance.

• PicturesqueNarrower topic: The picturesque helped frame Romantic encounters with landscape, while Romantic art also exceeded its rules.

• Russian classical musicRelated: Its ideals encouraged composers to turn Russian history and folklore into concert subjects.

• Russian RomanticismNarrower topic: Russian writers adapted this broader movement to local literary traditions and political conditions.

• Sturm und DrangNarrower topic: Sturm und Drang is often treated as an early German precursor to Romanticism.

• Alexandre DumasNarrower topic: Dumas’s dramatic heroes and turbulent historical settings reflect Romantic literary tastes.

• Arthur RimbaudNarrower topic: Rimbaud inherited Romantic intensity while rejecting its familiar poetic voice and imagery.

• DoppelgängerNarrower topic: Romantic-era writing made the double a vehicle for inner conflict and uncanny experience.

• Ivan FrankoCompared with: Franko drew on romantic national themes while also pursuing realism and social critique.

• Literary genreRelated: Romantic writers challenged inherited rules about literary forms and subjects.

• Mikhail LermontovNarrower topic: Its ideals of rebellious individuality underpin Lermontov’s heroes and landscapes.

• Pathetic fallacyRelated: Romantic poetry often presents nature as responsive to human feeling, a practice Ruskin later analyzed.

• Regency eraRelated: Romantic works overlapped with the Regency but extended beyond its political dates.

• SolitudeRelated: Romantic works often cast solitary encounters with nature as sources of insight.

• The PreludeNarrower topic: The poem’s account of imagination and nature is central to English Romanticism.

• Byronic heroNarrower topic: Its celebration of intense individuality provided fertile ground for the hero.

• European modernismCompared with: Modernism inherited Romantic self-expression but often distrusted its ideals and rhetoric.

• Jean-Auguste-Dominique IngresCompared with: Romanticism, especially in Delacroix’s work, opposed the order and line Ingres championed.

• Literary allusionRelated: Romantic writers often reinterpreted classical and biblical sources through individual imagination.

• Lyrical BalladsNarrower topic: The collection helped establish poetic practices associated with Romanticism.

• Nature (natural world)Related: It helped establish nature as a source of awe and spiritual insight.

• The Raft of the MedusaNarrower topic: The painting’s scale, emotional extremity, and unstable scene exemplify Romantic priorities.

• Andrés BelloCompared with: Bello’s neoclassical ideals often stood apart from the romantic literary style gaining ground in his era.

• Benjamin WestCompared with: West’s ordered history paintings preceded the Romantic shift in British art and sensibility.

• Edmond de GoncourtCompared with: The Goncourts’ documentary attention to social detail differs from Romanticism’s characteristic emphasis.

• France PrešerenNarrower topic: Its themes and poetic forms shaped Prešeren’s work.

• Machado de AssisRelated: Machado's early fiction reflects romantic conventions that his mature work increasingly unsettles.

• Pedro Calderón de la BarcaRelated: Romantic writers and audiences revived Calderón as a model of poetic drama.

• Romani musicCompared with: Romantic-era fascination with imagined Romani freedom helped create stereotypes later attached to music.

• Symphonie fantastiqueNarrower topic: The symphony’s subjective fantasy and autobiographical framing exemplify Romantic artistic concerns.

• The Third of May 1808Related: Its expressive violence and emotional intensity anticipate traits associated with Romantic art.

• American literary realismCompared with: Its idealized subjects and heightened feeling offer a clear contrast to realism's everyday social observation.

• American regionalismCompared with: Regionalist attention to everyday communities differs from Romanticism’s frequent emphasis on exceptional individuals and idealized nature.

• American RomanticismNarrower topic: American Romantic writers adapted this broader movement to local landscapes and national debates.

• European paintingCompared with: Its expressive priorities challenged the discipline of Neoclassical painting.

• George MacDonaldRelated: His esteem for imagination and nature reflects Romantic ideas that persisted into Victorian writing.

• Hippolyte TaineCompared with: Taine’s causal analysis challenged Romantic accounts that privileged individual genius and inspiration.