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Dark romanticism (often conflated with Gothicism or called American romanticism) is a literary subgenre〔(Dark Romanticism: The Ultimate Contradiction )〕 centered on the writers Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville.〔Robin Peel, ''Apart from Modernism'' (2005) p. 136〕 As opposed to the perfectionist beliefs of Transcendentalism, the Dark Romantics emphasized human fallibility and proneness to sin and self-destruction, as well as the difficulties inherent in attempts at social reform.〔T. Nitscke, ''Edgar Alan Poe's short story “The Tell-Tale Heart” (2012) p. 5–7〕 ==Characteristics== G. R. Thompson stressed that in opposition to the optimism of figures like Emerson, “the Dark Romantics adapted images of anthropomorphized evil in the form of Satan, devils, ghosts, werewolves, vampires, and ghouls”,〔Thompson, G. R., ed. "Introduction: Romanticism and the Gothic Tradition." ''Gothic Imagination: Essays in Dark Romanticism.'' Pullman, WA: Washington State University Press, 1974: p. 6.〕 as more telling guides to man's inherent nature. Thompson sums up the characteristics of the subgenre, writing: : Fallen man's inability fully to comprehend haunting reminders of another, supernatural realm that yet seemed not to exist, the constant perplexity of inexplicable and vastly metaphysical phenomena, a propensity for seemingly perverse or evil moral choices that had no firm or fixed measure or rule, and a sense of nameless guilt combined with a suspicion the external world was a delusive projection of the mind--these were major elements in the vision of man the Dark Romantics opposed to the mainstream of Romantic thought.〔Thompson, G.R., ed. 1974: p. 5.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dark romanticism」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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