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German Romanticism as a book category refers to literature produced in the German-speaking lands roughly between the 1790s and the 1830s that privileges imagination, feeling, and the mysterious over Enlightenment rationality. Works in this category commonly emphasize individual subjectivity and longing (the famous “blue flower” motif), the power and beauty of nature, the medieval and folk past, and the supernatural or uncanny; genres range from lyric poetry and fairy tales to novellas, gothic tales, plays and philosophical essays. Stylistically these books often mix genres, employ lyrical and fragmentary forms, and explore myth, folklore and national identity while questioning boundaries between dream and reality. Important names associated with the movement include Novalis, the Schlegel brothers, the Grimms' fairy‑tale collections, E.T.A. Hoffmann and others, and the movement’s influence is visible in later Gothic and modernist literature.

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