# Neo-romanticism > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Neo-romanticism > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Neo-romanticism.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-romanticism > Source revision: 1338976276 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Movements from the era of Romanticism Not to be confused with [New Romantic](/source/New_Romantic). For the term as applied to music, see [Neoromanticism (music)](/source/Neoromanticism_(music)). This article needs more citations. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this article. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Neo-romanticism" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (May 2013) (Learn how and when to remove this message) [Pena Palace](/source/Pena_Palace) in [Sintra](/source/Sintra), [Portugal](/source/Portugal) one of the points of reference for Neo-Romantic architecture The term **neo-romanticism** is used to cover a variety of movements in philosophy, literature, music, painting, and architecture, as well as [social movements](/source/Social_movement), that exist after and incorporate elements from the era of [Romanticism](/source/Romanticism). It has been used with reference to late-19th-century composers such as [Richard Wagner](/source/Richard_Wagner) particularly by [Carl Dahlhaus](/source/Carl_Dahlhaus) who describes his music as "a late flowering of romanticism in a positivist age". He regards it as synonymous with "the age of Wagner", from about 1850 until 1890—the start of the era of [modernism](/source/Musical_modernism), whose leading early representatives were [Richard Strauss](/source/Richard_Strauss) and [Gustav Mahler](/source/Gustav_Mahler) ([Dahlhaus 1979](#CITEREFDahlhaus1979), 98–99, 102, 105). It has been applied to writers, painters, and composers who rejected, abandoned, or opposed [realism](/source/Realism_(arts)), [naturalism](/source/Naturalism_(art)), or [avant-garde](/source/Avant-garde) [modernism](/source/Modernism) at various points in time from about 1840 down to the present. ## Late 19th century and early 20th century Neo-romanticism as well as Romanticism is considered in opposition to naturalism—indeed, so far as music is concerned, naturalism is regarded as alien and even hostile ([Dahlhaus 1979](#CITEREFDahlhaus1979), 100). In the period following German unification in 1871, naturalism rejected Romantic literature as a misleading, idealistic distortion of reality. Naturalism in turn came to be regarded as incapable of filling the "void" of modern existence. Critics such as [Hermann Bahr](/source/Hermann_Bahr), [Heinrich Mann](/source/Heinrich_Mann), and [Eugen Diederichs](/source/Eugen_Diederichs) came to oppose naturalism and [materialism](/source/Materialism) under the banner of "neo-romanticism", demanding a cultural reorientation responding to "the soul's longing for a meaning and content in life" that might replace the fragmentations of modern knowledge with a holistic world view ([Kohlenbach 2009](#CITEREFKohlenbach2009), 261). ## Late 20th century "Neo-romanticism" was proposed as an alternative label for the group of German composers identified with the short-lived *[Neue Einfachheit](/source/New_Simplicity)* movement in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Along with other phrases such as "new tonality", this term has been criticised for lack of precision because of the diversity among these composers, whose leading member is [Wolfgang Rihm](/source/Wolfgang_Rihm) ([Hentschel 2006](#CITEREFHentschel2006), 111). ## Britain This section needs more citations. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (May 2013) (Learn how and when to remove this message) ### 1880–1910 - [Lewis Carroll](/source/Lewis_Carroll) - [John Ruskin](/source/John_Ruskin) - [Edward Elgar](/source/Edward_Elgar) - [Gerard Manley Hopkins](/source/Gerard_Manley_Hopkins) - [Ralph Vaughan Williams](/source/Ralph_Vaughan_Williams) - The [Aesthetic movement](/source/Aesthetic_movement) and the [Arts and Crafts Movement](/source/Arts_and_Crafts_Movement) - [Symbolism (arts)](/source/Symbolism_(arts)) - [Rudyard Kipling](/source/Rudyard_Kipling) - [Robert Louis Stevenson](/source/Robert_Louis_Stevenson) - [A. E. Housman](/source/A._E._Housman) - [Neo-Gothic architecture](/source/Neo-Gothic_architecture) - Some modes of [pictorialism](/source/Pictorialism) in photography. ### 1930–1955 In British art history, the term "neo-romanticism" is applied to a loosely affiliated school of landscape painting that emerged around 1930 and continued until the early 1950s. It was first labeled in March 1942 by the critic [Raymond Mortimer](/source/Raymond_Mortimer) in the *New Statesman*. These painters looked back to 19th-century artists such as [William Blake](/source/William_Blake) and [Samuel Palmer](/source/Samuel_Palmer), but were also influenced by French cubist and post-cubist artists such as [Pablo Picasso](/source/Pablo_Picasso), [André Masson](/source/Andr%C3%A9_Masson), and [Pavel Tchelitchew](/source/Pavel_Tchelitchew) ([Clark and Clarke 2001](#CITEREFClark_and_Clarke2001) harvnb error: no target: CITEREFClark_and_Clarke2001 ([help](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Harv_and_Sfn_template_errors)); [Hopkins 2001](#CITEREFHopkins2001)). This movement was motivated in part as a response to the threat of invasion during World War II. Artists particularly associated with the initiation of this movement included [Paul Nash](/source/Paul_Nash_(artist)), [John Piper](/source/John_Piper_(artist)), [Henry Moore](/source/Henry_Moore), [Ivon Hitchens](/source/Ivon_Hitchens), and especially [Graham Sutherland](/source/Graham_Sutherland). A younger generation included [John Minton](/source/John_Minton_(artist)), [Michael Ayrton](/source/Michael_Ayrton), [John Craxton](/source/John_Craxton), [Keith Vaughan](/source/Keith_Vaughan), [Robert Colquhoun](/source/Robert_Colquhoun), and [Robert MacBryde](/source/Robert_MacBryde) ([Button 1996](#CITEREFButton1996)). ## United States - [Justine Kurland](/source/Justine_Kurland)'s photography[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] - [Thomas Mayne Reid](/source/Thomas_Mayne_Reid)[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] - [Donna Tartt](/source/Donna_Tartt), in particular her popular 1992 debut novel *[The Secret History](/source/The_Secret_History)*[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] ## Western Europe The [aesthetic](/source/Aesthetic) [philosophy](/source/Philosophy) of [Arthur Schopenhauer](/source/Arthur_Schopenhauer) and [Friedrich Nietzsche](/source/Friedrich_Nietzsche) has contributed greatly to neo-romantic thinking.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] **Austria** - [Anton Bruckner](/source/Anton_Bruckner) **France** - [Edmond Rostand](/source/Edmond_Rostand) **Germany** - [Richard Strauss](/source/Richard_Strauss) - [Wandervogel](/source/Wandervogel) **Iceland** - [Sigurdur Nordal](/source/Sigurdur_Nordal) **Ireland** - [W.B. Yeats](/source/William_Butler_Yeats) **Italy** - [Rafael Sabatini](/source/Rafael_Sabatini) **Norway** - [Knut Hamsun](/source/Knut_Hamsun) ## Eastern Europe This section is in list format but may read better as prose. You can help by converting this section, if appropriate. Editing help is available. (May 2013) **Belarusian** - [Uladzimir Karatkevich](/source/Uladzimir_Karatkevich) - [Yanka Kupala](/source/Yanka_Kupala) **Estonian** - [Johannes Semper](/source/Johannes_Semper) - [Marie Under](/source/Marie_Under) **Georgian** - [Alexander Kazbegi](/source/Alexander_Kazbegi) **Greece** - [Odysseus Elytis](/source/Odysseus_Elytis) **Hungarian** - [Mór Jókai](/source/M%C3%B3r_J%C3%B3kai) **Polish** - [Young Poland](/source/Young_Poland) Movement - [Antoni Lange](/source/Antoni_Lange) - [Stanisław Przybyszewski](/source/Stanis%C5%82aw_Przybyszewski) - [Tadeusz Miciński](/source/Tadeusz_Mici%C5%84ski) - [Karol Szymanowski](/source/Karol_Szymanowski) **Russian** - [Eugene Berman](/source/Eugene_Berman) - [Maxim Gorky](/source/Maxim_Gorky) (early works) ([Kahn et al. 2018](#CITEREFKahnLipovetskyReyfmanSandler2018), 599–605) - [Alexander Grin](/source/Alexander_Grin) ([Kahn et al. 2018](#CITEREFKahnLipovetskyReyfmanSandler2018), 599–605) - [Vladimir Nabokov](/source/Vladimir_Nabokov), in particular his 1932 novel [*Glory*](/source/Glory_(Nabokov_novel)) - [Konstantin Paustovsky](/source/Konstantin_Paustovsky) ([Kahn et al. 2018](#CITEREFKahnLipovetskyReyfmanSandler2018), 599–605) - [Sergei Rachmaninoff](/source/Sergei_Rachmaninoff) - [Pavel Tchelitchew](/source/Pavel_Tchelitchew) **Slovenian** - [Dragotin Kette](/source/Dragotin_Kette) ## Arab world Within the [Modern Arabic literature](/source/Modern_Arabic_literature), neo-romanticism began in the early 20th century and flourished during the 1930s–1940s, that sought inspiration from French or English romantic poetry. Most famous its part is the *[Mahjar](/source/Mahjar)* ("*émigré*" school) that includes [Arabic](/source/Arabic)-language poets in the Americas [Ameen Rihani](/source/Ameen_Rihani), [Kahlil Gibran](/source/Kahlil_Gibran), [Nasib Arida](/source/Nasib_Arida), [Mikhail Naimy](/source/Mikhail_Naimy), [Elia Abu Madi](/source/Elia_Abu_Madi), Fawsi Maluf, Farhat, and al-Qarawi. The neo-romantic current also involved poets in every Arabian country: [Abdel Rahman Shokry](/source/Abdel_Rahman_Shokry), [Abbas Mahmoud al-Aqqad](/source/Abbas_Mahmoud_al-Aqqad) and [Ibrahim al-Mazini](/source/Ibrahim_al-Mazini) in Egypt, [Omar Abu Risha](/source/Omar_Abu_Risha) in Syria, [Elias Abu Shabaki](/source/Elias_Abu_Shabaki) and [Salah Labaki](/source/Salah_Labaki) in Lebanon, [Abu al-Qasim al-Shabbi](/source/Aboul-Qacem_Echebbi) in Tunisia, and [Al-Tijani Yusuf Bashir](/source/Al-Tijani_Yusuf_Bashir) in Sudan.([Jayyusi 1977](#CITEREFJayyusi1977), 361–474) ## India In the [Indian literature](/source/Indian_literature) neo-romanticism was represented by the [Chhayavaad](/source/Chhayavaad) movement. ## Japan Beginning in the mid-1930s and continuing through World War II, a Japanese neo-romantic literary movement was led by the writer [Yasuda Yojūrō](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yasuda_Yoj%C5%ABr%C5%8D&action=edit&redlink=1) ([Torrance 2010](#CITEREFTorrance2010), 66). ## In popular culture Main article: [New Romantic](/source/New_Romantic) ## See also - [Romantic music](/source/Romantic_music) - [Guild socialism](/source/Guild_socialism) - [Utopian socialism](/source/Utopian_socialism) - [Wandervogel](/source/Wandervogel) - [Robert Baden-Powell](/source/Robert_Baden-Powell) - [Metamodernism](/source/Metamodernism) ### Modern manifestations - [Fantasy art](/source/Fantastic_art) - [Goth subculture](/source/Goth_subculture) - [Regionalism (art)](/source/Regionalism_(art)) - [Neopagan](/source/Neopagan) - [Neofolk](/source/Neofolk) - [Neoromanticism (music)](/source/Neoromanticism_(music)) - [Neotribalism](/source/Neotribalism) - [New Romantic](/source/New_Romantic) ## References - Button, Virginia. 1996. "Neo-Romanticism". *Dictionary of Art*, 34 volumes, edited by Jane Turner. New York: Grove's Dictionaries. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9781884446009](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781884446009). - Clarke, Michael, and Deborah Clarke. 2001. "Neo-Romanticism". *The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms*. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. - Dahlhaus, Carl. 1979. "Neo-Romanticism". *19th-Century Music* 3, no. 2 (November): 97–105. - Hentschel, Frank. 2006. "Wie neu war die 'Neue Einfachheit'?" *Acta Musicologica* 78, no. 1:111–31. - Hopkins, Justine. 2001. "Neo-Romanticism". *The Oxford Companion to Western Art*, edited by Hugh Brigstocke. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-19-866203-7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-866203-7). - [Jayyusi, Salma Khadra](/source/Salma_Jayyusi) (1977). "The Romantic Current in Modern Arabic Poetry." In [*Trends and Movements in Modern Arabic Poetry*](https://books.google.com/books?id=8pI3AAAAIAAJ). Vol. 2. pp. 361–474. Leiden: E. J. Brill. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [90-04-04920-7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/90-04-04920-7). - Kahn, Andrew; [Lipovetsky, Mark](/source/Mark_Lipovetsky); Reyfman, Irina; Sandler, Stephanie (2018). "Neo-Romanticism." [*A History of Russian Literature*](https://books.google.com/books?id=7qZTDwAAQBAJ). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 599–605. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780199663941](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780199663941). - Kohlenbach, Margarete. 2009. "Transformations of German Romanticism 1830–2000". In *The Cambridge Companion to German Romanticism*, edited by Nicholas Saul, 257–80. Cambridge Companions to Literature. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780521848916](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780521848916). - Torrance, Richard. 2010. "The People's Library: The Spirit of Prose Literature Versus Fascism". In *The Culture of Japanese Fascism*, edited by [Alan Tansman](/source/Alan_Tansman), 56–79. Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society. Duke University Press. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780822390701](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780822390701). ## Further reading **British:** - Ackroyd, Peter. 2002. *The Origins of the English Imagination*.[*[full citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#What_information_to_include)*] - Arnold, Graham. 2003. *The Ruralists: A Celebration*.[*[full citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#What_information_to_include)*] - Michael Bracewell. 1997. *England Is Mine*.[*[full citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#What_information_to_include)*] - Cannon-Brookes, P. 1983. *The British Neo-Romantics*.[*[full citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#What_information_to_include)*] - Corbett, Holt, and Russell (eds.). 2002. *The Geographies of Englishness: Landscape and the National Past, 1880-1940*.[*[full citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#What_information_to_include)*] - Martin, Christopher. 1992. *The Ruralists (An Art & Design Profile, No. 23)*.[*[full citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#What_information_to_include)*] - Martin, Simon. 2008. *Poets in the Landscape: The Romantic Spirit in British Art*.[*[full citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#What_information_to_include)*] - Johnson and Landow (Eds).[*[full citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#What_information_to_include)*] 1980. *Fantastic Illustration and Design in Great Britain, 1850–1930*. Cambridge: The MIT Press. - Mellor, David. 1987. *Paradise Lost: The Neo-Romantic Imagination in Britain, 1935–1955*.[*[full citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#What_information_to_include)*] - Picot, Edward. 1997. *Outcasts from [Eden](/source/Garden_of_Eden): Ideas of Landscape in British Poetry Since 1945*.[*[full citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#What_information_to_include)*] - Sillars, S. 1991. *British Romantic Art and The Second World War*.[*[full citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#What_information_to_include)*] - Trentmann, F. 1994. *Civilisation and its Discontents: English Neo-Romanticism and the Transformation of Anti-[Modernism](/source/Modernism) in Twentieth-Century Western Culture*. London: [Birkbeck College](/source/Birkbeck%2C_University_of_London). - Woodcock, Peter. 2000. *This Enchanted Isle: The Neo-Romantic Vision from William Blake to the New Visionaries*.[*[full citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#What_information_to_include)*] - Yorke, Malcolm. 1988. *The Spirit of the Place: Nine Neo-Romantic Artists and Their Times*. London: Constable & Company Limited. Paperback reprint, London and New York: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2001. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1-86064-604-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-86064-604-2). **Indian** - Brajendranath Seal. 1903. "The Neo-Romantic Movement in Literature". In *New Essays in Criticism*[*[full citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#What_information_to_include)*]. ## External links - [EBNR: An Encyclopedia of British Neoromanticism](https://web.archive.org/web/20170917123827/http://www.neo-romantic.org.uk/index.html) Authority control databases International GND National United States Israel Other Yale LUX --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Neo-romanticism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-romanticism) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-romanticism?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.