Trending Literary Movements — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed literary movements on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Dada. Data as of 28 October 2026.
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1,006,208
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Dada
avant-garde art movement in the early 20th century
155,367
views
views
2
Romanticism
artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement
133,796
views
views
3
avant-garde
works that are experimental or innovative
75,303
views
views
4
Beat Generation
literary movement
58,126
views
views
5
Symbolism
late nineteenth-century art movement of French, Russian and Belgian origin seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images
32,809
views
views
6
Sturm und Drang
Proto-Romantic movement in German literature and music
32,250
views
views
7
ero guro
literary and artistic movement originating circa 1930 in Japan
32,112
views
views
8
Decadent movement
late-19th-century artistic and literary movement centered in Western Europe
30,579
views
views
9
literary realism
literary movement
27,227
views
views
10
Aestheticism
art movement emphasizing aesthetic considerations over social values
26,822
views
views
11
postmodern literature
literary form and movement of the twentieth century
24,637
views
views
12
naturalism
literary movement
22,685
views
views
13
Spanish Golden Age
period of flourishing in arts and literature in Spain
18,166
views
views
14
modernist literature
characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional styles of poetry and verse
16,177
views
views
15
Japonisme
European imitation of Japanese art during the 19th and 20th centuries
13,744
views
views
16
New Objectivity
attitude of public life in Weimar Germany as well as the art, literature, music, and architecture created to adapt to it
11,785
views
views
17
parnassianism
19th century French literary movement
11,401
views
views
18
La Pléiade
group of French Renaissance poets
11,020
views
views
19
cosmicism
literary philosophy
10,394
views
views
20
Victorian literature
literature during the period of Queen Victoria's reign
10,346
views
views
21
Catalan modernism
architectural and artistic movement originating in late-19th-century Catalonia, Spain
10,058
views
views
22
Generation of '98
literary movement in Spain at the time of the Spanish–American War
9,605
views
views
23
Latín mmg todos
late 20th global century proliferation of Latin American literature
9,331
views
views
24
Weimar Classicism
German literary and cultural movement, whose practitioners established a new humanism
8,904
views
views
25
vorticism
short-lived modernist movement in British art and poetry of the early 20th century
8,003
views
views
26
Vormärz
Period of German history before the 1848 revolution
7,316
views
views
27
Imagism
20th-century poetry movement
6,871
views
views
28
Sentimentalism
literary movement
6,798
views
views
29
Acmeist poetry
school of poetry
6,151
views
views
30
Nouveau Roman
French literary movement
6,097
views
views
31
Modernismo
Spanish-American literary movement
5,959
views
views
32
proletarian literature
literature created by working-class writers mainly for the class-conscious proletariat
5,614
views
views
33
Renaissance literature
European literature influenced by the Renaissance
5,265
views
views
34
dirty realism
subgenre of literature
5,254
views
views
35
New Culture Movement
revolt against Confucian values
5,052
views
views
36
Neo-romanticism
movements from the era of Romanticism
5,015
views
views
37
Précieuses
art movement in literature
4,832
views
views
38
Romantic literature
literature of the Romantic Period
4,808
views
views
39
Baroque literature
literary movement of the Baroque era
4,738
views
views
40
Indigenismo
trend in social and political thought, visual arts, and literature in Latin American countries where Indians make up a significant part of the population, rehabilitating them
4,650
views
views
41
Dalit Panther
social organization
4,408
views
views
42
verguismo
Italian literary movement
4,246
views
views
43
Dolce Stil Novo
literary movement
3,963
views
views
44
Jena Romanticism
German philosophical and literary movement
3,850
views
views
45
Félibrige
association to promote Occitan language
3,589
views
views
46
Золотой век русской литературы
3,576
views
views
47
imaginism
Russian poetry movement
3,100
views
views
48
Ultraist movement
Spanish literary movement opposing modernism
3,026
views
views
49
Costumbrismo
art movement
2,821
views
views
50
Translation Movement
movement that resulted in the translation of texts from various languages into Arabic
2,747
views
views
51
impressionism
movement in literature
2,735
views
views
52
Hussards
French literary movement in the 1950s
2,635
views
views
53
Scapigliatura
Milanese artistic and literary movement of the sixties of the 1800s
2,606
views
views
54
Southern Agrarians
twelve authors of the Southern Agrarians manifesto
2,592
views
views
55
visual poetry
poetry where the text’s layout, typography, and visual arrangement enhance its meaning, blending design with literary art
2,566
views
views
56
Old Comedy
earliest period of ancient Greek comedic drama
2,541
views
views
57
Restoration literature
literature written during the English restoration
2,409
views
views
58
expressionism
literary movement
2,320
views
views
59
Trümmerliteratur
literary movement
2,297
views
views
60
Young Germany
disestablishmentarian think tank consiting of young German artists from 1830-1850
2,224
views
views
61
hermeticism
literary movement in poetry started in Italy
2,192
views
views
62
Atticism
rhetorical movement originating from 1st century BC Greece
2,177
views
views
63
infrarealism
a poetic movement founded in Mexico City in 1975
2,170
views
views
64
Progressive Writers' Movement
progressive literary movement in pre-partition British India
2,095
views
views
65
genbun itchi
unification of the written and spoken forms of Japanese language
2,014
views
views
66
San Francisco Renaissance
American avant-garde cultural activity in San Francisco as an historical hub
1,978
views
views
67
New Formalism
movement in American poetry since the 1970s
1,960
views
views
68
euphuism
an affected bombastic style of language
1,928
views
views
69
scar literature
Chinese literature portraying damage caused by the Cultural Revolution; Chinese fiction of the late 1970s and early 1980s that focuses on the physical and mental suffering that occurred during the Cultural Revolution.
1,923
views
views
70
Latin translations of the 12th century
1,879
views
views
71
Graveyard poets
pre-Romantic English poets of the 18th century
1,868
views
views
72
Conceptismo
literary movement of the Baroque period of Portuguese and Spanish literature
1,680
views
views
73
Black Mountain poets
group of mid-20th-century American postmodern poets
1,680
views
views
74
Catholic literary revival
1860-1960 movement in France and England
1,679
views
views
75
Barroquismo (barroco)
Spanish stylistic movement in the Baroque period
1,664
views
views
76
Neue Sachlichkeit (Literatur)
1,627
views
views
77
Generation of '36
group of Spanish artists
1,608
views
views
78
ukiyozōshi
Japanese literature movement
1,570
views
views
79
Galician-Portuguese lyric
lyric and poetic movement
1,545
views
views
80
The Third Generation of Postwar Writers
modern Japanese literature classification
1,520
views
views
81
Shinkankakuha
Japanese literary group
1,458
views
views
82
Spanish Baroque literature
literary movement
1,400
views
views
83
McOndo
Latin American literary movement
1,374
views
views
84
nadaism
Colombian counterculture movement
1,373
views
views
85
The Movement
English literary movement of the 1950s
1,350
views
views
86
Pre-romanticism
literary movement developed in Europe in the last third of the century XVIII
1,346
views
views
87
Native American Renaissance
Artistic movement
1,292
views
views
88
Mahjar
Levantine diaspora's cultural movement
1,281
views
views
89
Stridentism
Mexican literary movement
1,272
views
views
90
Post-exotisme
1,242
views
views
91
Hungry generation
1960s literary movement in the Bengali language
1,177
views
views
92
Generation of '50
Spanish literary movement
1,132
views
views
93
Ego-Futurism
Russian literary movement of the 1910s, developed within Russian Futurism by Igor Severyanin and his early followers
1,125
views
views
94
Southern Renaissance
reinvigoration of Southern US literature in the 1920s–30s by authors such as W. Faulkner, T. Wolfe, C. Gordon, M. Mitchell
1,106
views
views
95
New Narrative
literary movement founded in San Francisco in the 1970s by Robert Glück and Bruce Boone, aiming to represent subjective experience without pretense at absolute objectivity or absolute fluidity of a text
1,091
views
views
96
Gruppo 63
Italian literary movement
1,070
views
views
97
symbolism
literary expression of the symbolism art movement
1,056
views
views
98
futurism
movement in literature
1,020
views
views
99
Spanish mystics
Early modern Catholic mystics
996
views
views
100
Modern Breakthrough
Movement of naturalism and debating literature in Scandinavia
972
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