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The 100 pages that link to Romanticism, each with the reason it gives.

• ExistentialismNarrower topic: Its emphasis on singular experience helped prepare the ground for existentialist attention to lived life.

• Historical novelNarrower topic: Romantic interest in distinct historical worlds helped shape the genre’s early form.

• RealismCompared with: Realism turned from Romanticism’s heightened emotion toward ordinary, observable life.

• Literary realismCompared with: Realist writers often rejected Romantic idealization in favor of ordinary settings and social constraint.

• HistoricismRelated: Romantic thinkers challenged universal abstractions by stressing the distinct character of historical cultures.

• Romantic nationalismNarrower topic: Romantic nationalism drew on Romanticism's esteem for cultural uniqueness and the past.

• German idealismRelated: It shared idealism’s concerns while often resisting the priority idealist systems gave to conceptual reason.

• Mark TwainCompared with: Twain’s realism and comic skepticism often resist Romantic idealization.

• Psychological realismCompared with: Psychological realism often qualifies idealized emotion with social context and self-deception.

• Alexander PushkinNarrower topic: Pushkin’s early poetry drew on Romantic forms before developing a more varied style.

• Naturalism (theatre)Compared with: Its idealized heroes and heightened expression differ from naturalism’s ordinary lives and material constraints.

• Walter BenjaminNarrower topic: Benjamin’s early criticism developed through close study of German Romantic writers and aesthetics.

• Romantic balletNarrower topic: Its fascination with the supernatural and emotional intensity shaped Romantic ballet's subjects.

• BalladNarrower topic: Romantic writers treated traditional ballads as sources of poetic language and cultural memory.

• Ballet blancNarrower topic: Its ideals help explain the style’s preference for dreamlike settings and supernatural subjects.

• Jacob GrimmNarrower topic: Romantic interest in cultural origins helped motivate the Grimms’ collection of traditional tales.

• Alexander PopeCompared with: Romantic critics often rejected the formal polish Pope represented, reshaping his later reputation.

• ClassicismCompared with: Romantic artists often challenged classicist rules and its preference for restraint.

• Johann Gottfried HerderNarrower topic: Herder’s attention to folk tradition and cultural individuality helped prepare Romantic approaches to literature.

• American realismCompared with: Realists resisted its idealization by treating ordinary contemporary life as worthy subject matter.

• French classicismCompared with: Romantic writers challenged classicist authority and its standards of restraint and imitation.

• Friedrich SchleiermacherNarrower topic: Its emphasis on feeling and individuality shaped his early intellectual setting.

• Historical romanceRelated: Its celebration of intense feeling helped shape later ideals of romantic love.

• PrometheusRelated: Romantic writers often treated Prometheus as a rebel against oppressive authority.

• Fantasy literatureRelated: Romantic writers elevated wonder and imaginative escape as literary values.

• J. M. W. TurnerNarrower topic: Turner’s landscapes and storms give Romantic ideas about nature and feeling a distinctive visual form.

• National romanticismNarrower topic: National romanticism adapted Romantic ideals to the project of expressing a distinct national identity.

• Wilhelm von HumboldtRelated: Romantic attention to cultural difference helps explain his interest in the distinctive character of languages.

• Literary celebrityRelated: Romantic ideals strengthened the association between literary work and distinctive personality.

• Wuthering HeightsNarrower topic: The novel’s intense feeling and untamed landscape recall Romantic concerns while complicating them.

• French SymbolismNarrower topic: Symbolism inherited Romantic inwardness but pursued it through compressed images and indirect expression.

• Friedrich SchlegelNarrower topic: Schlegel's philology developed within German Romanticism's interest in language and national histories.

• Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph SchellingRelated: Schelling’s philosophy of nature and art developed amid Romantic efforts to reunite reason and life.

• Madame BovaryCompared with: Emma’s borrowed romantic ideals are tested against the novel’s material and social world.

• Niccolò PaganiniRelated: Paganini's dramatic performances embodied Romantic fascination with exceptional individuality.

• Vissarion BelinskyNarrower topic: Belinsky began within Romantic criticism before turning toward social realism and historical interpretation.

• Age of EnlightenmentCompared with: Romantic writers challenged Enlightenment confidence in universal reason and orderly progress.

• Counter-EnlightenmentBroader topic: Romantic writers developed several themes that had appeared in earlier critiques of Enlightenment thought.

• Weimar ClassicismCompared with: Its emerging German forms differed from Weimar Classicism’s emphasis on discipline and classical balance.

• Polish RomanticismNarrower topic: Polish writers adapted Romantic ideas to the conditions of a nation without an independent state.

• William Dean HowellsCompared with: Howells opposed its idealization when advocating fiction grounded in ordinary life.

• Art musicRelated: Romantic ideals elevated the composer’s individuality and the expressive ambitions of instrumental music.

• August Wilhelm SchlegelRelated: Romantic ideas about historical development informed Schlegel’s approach to language and literature.

• Philosophy of natureCompared with: Romantic thinkers resisted reducing nature to a machine governed by external laws.

• BohemianismRelated: Romantic ideals of individual freedom helped prepare the cultural ground for bohemianism.

• G. W. F. HegelCompared with: Hegel disputes Romantic appeals to immediate intuition as a substitute for developed thought.

• OrganicismRelated: Romantic naturalists helped revive attention to living forms as integrated wholes.

• Grand mannerCompared with: Romantic emphasis on feeling and individual imagination unsettled grand manner's classical restraint.

• Italian RomanticismNarrower topic: Italian writers adapted this broader movement to the peninsula’s languages, histories, and political divisions.

• Romance (genre)Compared with: The later movement shares the word romance but is distinct from the narrative genre.