Writers in the period were interested in historical accounts, legends, and folklore. absurdist realist regency romantic

Romantic

The Romantic period, also known as Romanticism, is an artistic orientation that dominated the Western world from the late 18th to the mid-19th century. Romanticism is often understood as a reaction to the Enlightenment, rationalism and materialism in general. Instead, this literary current valued the individual, the imaginative and the emotional. Authors during this period were greatly interested in historical accounts, legends and folklore. Therefore, genres such as poetry and horror became very popular.