Romantic and Transcendentalist Movements

Movements of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries centered on emotion, nature and the individual: romanticism's rejection of neoclassical restraint, its American transcendentalist offshoot, and the broader body of Victorian literature spanning the same century in Britain. Belongs here: a movement whose active period runs from roughly the 1780s to the 1900s and whose concerns are emotion, nature or moral earnestness. Does not belong here: realism and naturalism, the movements that arose in direct reaction against romantic idealism, tracked under their own group below.