What defines Romanticism in fiction and Prose Writing?
Romantic literature can usually be distinguished by its subject matter. Nature is often celebrated or is a key part of the story and the characters are depicted having spiritual lives and a vivid imagination. Often there is a sense of isolation and tragedy intertwined with otherwise ordinary lives. Major examples of the genre would be Emily Bronte, Edgar Allan Poe and Mary Shelley but there are many others from the late eighteenth to mid nineteenth centuries.
People in this field include novelists, writers of fiction, historians and critics:
Casimiro José Marques de Abreu: (1839-1860) Brazilian Ultra Romantic poet, novelist and playwright. See the Marques de Abreu page here.
Hans Christian Andersen: (1805-1875) Danish poet, novelist and author of fairy tales and travelogues. See the Andersen page here.
Bettina von Arnim: (nee Brentano) (1785-1859) German novelist, publisher, composer, singer, visual artist, and social activist. See the Bettina von Arnim page here.
Carl Joachim Friedrich Ludwig von Arnim: (1781-1831) German poet and novelist. See the Achim von Arnim page here.
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis: (1839-1908) Brazilian novelist, poet and playwright. See Macado de Assis page here.
Jane Austen: (1775-1817) English novelist. See the Austen page here.
Anne Bronte: (1820-1849) English novelist and poet. See the Anne Bronte page here.
Charlotte Brontë: (1816-1855) English novelist. See the Charlotte Bronte page here.
Emily Bronte: (1818-1848) English novelist and poet. See the Emily Bronte page here.
Rosalía Rita de Castro: (1837-1885) Galician/Spanish poet and novelist. See the Castro page here.
François-René de Chateaubriand: (1768-1848) French writer, politician, diplomat and historian. See the Chateaubriand page here.
Alexandre Dumas: (1802-1870) French novelist and playwright. See the Dumas page here.
Maria Edgeworth: (1768-1849) Anglo-Irish novelist of realist adults and children’s literature. See the Edgeworth page here.
Gustave Flaubert: (1821-1880) Influential French novelist. See the Flaubert page here.
Theophile Gautier: (1811-1872) French poet, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic. See the Gautier page here.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: (1749-1832) German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director and critic. See the Goethe page here.
Nikili Gogol: 1809-1852) Russian novelist, short story writer and playwright. See the Gogol page here.
Seweryn Goszczyński: (1801-1876) Polish Romantic prose writer and poet. See the Goszczynski page here.
Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm: (1785–1863) German author, linguist, philologist, jurist, and folklorist. See the Jacob Grimm page here.
Wilhelm Carl Grimm: (1786–1859) German author and anthropologist. See the Wilhelm Grimm page here.
Bernardo Joaquim da Silva Guimarães: (1825-1884) Brazilian poet and novelist. See the Guimaraes page here.
Wilhelm Hauff: (1802-1827) German poet and novelist. See the Hauff page here.
Nathaniel Hawthorne: (1804-1864) American novelist and short story writer. See the Hawthorne page here.
William Hazlitt: (1778-1830) English radical essayist and polemicist. See the Hazlitt page here.
Alexandre Herculano de Carvalho e Araújo: (1810-1877) Portugese novelist, poet and historian See the Araujo page here.
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann: (1776-1822) German author of fantasy and Gothic horror, a jurist, composer, music critic and artist. See the Hoffman page here.
Josiah Gilbert Holland: (1818-1881) American novelist, essayist and poet. See the Holland page here.
Washington Irving: (1783-1859) American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat. See the Irving page here.
Jozef Ignacy Kraszewski: (1812-1887) Polish writer, publisher, historian, journalist, scholar and painter. See the Kraszewski page here.
Charles Lamb: (1775-1834) English essayist and friend of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. See the Lamb page here.
Allessandro Francesco Tommaso Antonio Manzoni: (1785-1873) Italian poet, novelist and philosopher. See the Manzoni page here.
Herman Melville: (1819-1891) American novelist, short story writer, and poet. See the Melville page here.
Prosper Merimee: (1803-1870) French writer and a pioneer of the novella. See the Merimee page here.
Caroline de la Motte Fouqué: (1773-1831) German novelist and essayist. See the Caroline Fouque page here.
Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué: (1777-1843) German novelist and playwright. See the Friedrich Fouque page here.
Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay: (1810-1857) French dramatist, poet, and novelist. See the Mussett-Pathay page here.
Novalis: (Birth name Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg) was a German aristocrat and poet, novelist, philosopher and mystic. See the Novalis page here.
Thomas Love Peacock: (1785-1866) English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. See the Peacock page here.
Edgar Alan Poe: (1809-1849) American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. See the Poe page here.
Thomas de Quincey: (1785-1859) English author most famous for writing “Confessions of an English Opium Eater”. See the de Quincey page here.
Jean Paul Friedrich Richter: (1763-1825) German Romantic writer of humorous novels and stories. See the Richter page here.
George Sand: (pseudonym of Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil) (1804-1876) French novelist, memoirist and journalist. See the Sand page here.
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller: (1759-1805) German physician, playwright, poet, and philosopher. See the Schiller page here.
Friedrich von Schlegel: (1772-1829) German poet, philosopher, philologist, critic and Indologist. See the Friedrich Schlegel page here.
Walter Scott: (1771-1832) Scottish historian, novelist, poet, and playwright. See the Scott page here.
Mary Shelley: (1797-1851) English novelist and translator. See the Mary Shelley page here.
Caroline Schlegel-Shelling: (1763-1809) German translator and critic. See the Caroline Schlegel-Shelling page here.
Dorothea Veit-Schlegel: (1764-1839) German novelist and translator. See the Dorotha Veit-Schlegel page here.
Charlotte Smith: (1749-1806) English novelist and poet. See the Smith page here.
Stendhal: (1783-1842) French novelist. See the Stendahl page here.
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore: (1786-1859) French Romantic poet, novelist and actress. See the Desbordes-Valmore page here.
Alfred Victor, Comte de Vigny: (1797-1863) French poet, novelist and translator and early Romanticist. See the Vigny page here.
Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder: (1773-1798) German writer and jurist. See the Wackenroder page here.