romantic literature
Tales of passion
Romantic literature is writing that emphasizes emotion, imagination, and individual experience over reason and classical forms.
The term usually refers to works from the Romantic movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries—poetry by Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats, or novels like Frankenstein.
Themes include nature's power, the sublime, and the artist as visionary.
Her thesis examined romantic literature's influence on environmental thought.
Not to be confused with romance literature, which centers on love stories. (Capitalized Romantic literature specifies the historical movement.)
- emotionComplex psychological state
- nostalgiaLonging for the past
- primitivismIdealization of pre-modern life
- gender rolesExpected behaviors by sex
- lyrical proseProse with musical quality
imagination · poetic genius · the sublime · noble savage · Percy Bysshe Shelley · idealism · Mary Shelley · ancient ruins · John Keats · storytelling · tragedy · Lord Byron · courtly love · William Wordsworth · nature worship · moors · dark hero · folklore
- romancelove story, amor, love, boyfriend, courting
- Borrow Works
- German LiteratureGoethe, Mann, Kafka, Franz Kafka, Rilke
- German ClassicismWeimar, Mary Stuart, classical aesthetics, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, literary legacy
- Scott StudiesWalter Scott, Sir Walter Scott, Waverley, Ivanhoe, Rob Roy
- Taisho Japanmodern girl, Ginza, Tokyo Station, cafe culture, suffrage movement
romantic literatureclassical literature
Foundational Western texts
modernist literature · postmodern literature · social realism
romantic literaturethriller
Suspense-driven narrative genre
hard science fiction · war literature · horror · techno-thriller · military fiction
romantic literaturesatirical writing
Mockery through exaggeration
dystopian literature · kitchen sink realism · gritty realism