Concept
Dark Romanticism
Overview
Dark Romanticism is a literary sub-genre of Romanticism, reflecting popular fascination with the irrational, the demonic and the grotesque. Often conflated with Gothic fiction, it has shadowed the euphoric Romantic movement ever since its 18th-century beginnings. Edgar Allan Poe is often celebrated as one of the supreme exponents of the tradition. Dark Romanticism focuses on human fallibility, self-destruction, judgement, punishment, as well as the psychological effects of guilt and sin.
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- Herman Melville
- Industrial Revolution
- Transcendentalism
- Ludwig Tieck
- Middle Ages
- Moby-Dick
- Heinrich von Kleist
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Puritans
- Boston
- Romanticism
- Spirituality
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Age of Enlightenment
- Salvador Dalí
- Charles Baudelaire
- Friedrich Schiller
- Diego Velázquez
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Evil
- Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff
- Biedermeier
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Romanticism.