Trending Literary Movements in USA — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed literary movements on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026 (English-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Dada. Data as of 27 October 2026.
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Ranked
653,637
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Dada
avant-garde art movement in the early 20th century
123,910
views
views
2
Romanticism
artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement
85,680
views
views
3
avant-garde
works that are experimental or innovative
55,480
views
views
4
Beat Generation
literary movement
46,507
views
views
5
ero guro
literary and artistic movement originating circa 1930 in Japan
24,475
views
views
6
Sturm und Drang
Proto-Romantic movement in German literature and music
20,718
views
views
7
Aestheticism
art movement emphasizing aesthetic considerations over social values
20,664
views
views
8
postmodern literature
literary form and movement of the twentieth century
20,126
views
views
9
Decadent movement
late-19th-century artistic and literary movement centered in Western Europe
18,544
views
views
10
Symbolism
late nineteenth-century art movement of French, Russian and Belgian origin seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images
17,378
views
views
11
modernist literature
characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional styles of poetry and verse
13,528
views
views
12
literary realism
literary movement
13,344
views
views
13
naturalism
literary movement
9,789
views
views
14
Victorian literature
literature during the period of Queen Victoria's reign
9,109
views
views
15
Japonisme
European imitation of Japanese art during the 19th and 20th centuries
8,942
views
views
16
Spanish Golden Age
period of flourishing in arts and literature in Spain
8,693
views
views
17
cosmicism
literary philosophy
8,617
views
views
18
vorticism
short-lived modernist movement in British art and poetry of the early 20th century
6,729
views
views
19
New Objectivity
attitude of public life in Weimar Germany as well as the art, literature, music, and architecture created to adapt to it
6,660
views
views
20
Catalan modernism
architectural and artistic movement originating in late-19th-century Catalonia, Spain
5,886
views
views
21
Imagism
20th-century poetry movement
5,880
views
views
22
Latín mmg todos
late 20th global century proliferation of Latin American literature
4,608
views
views
23
New Culture Movement
revolt against Confucian values
4,445
views
views
24
Dalit Panther
social organization
4,408
views
views
25
Generation of '98
literary movement in Spain at the time of the Spanish–American War
4,361
views
views
26
Romantic literature
literature of the Romantic Period
4,056
views
views
27
Weimar Classicism
German literary and cultural movement, whose practitioners established a new humanism
3,580
views
views
28
Neo-romanticism
movements from the era of Romanticism
3,574
views
views
29
Renaissance literature
European literature influenced by the Renaissance
3,308
views
views
30
parnassianism
19th century French literary movement
3,072
views
views
31
dirty realism
subgenre of literature
3,056
views
views
32
Nouveau Roman
French literary movement
2,906
views
views
33
Southern Agrarians
twelve authors of the Southern Agrarians manifesto
2,565
views
views
34
Translation Movement
movement that resulted in the translation of texts from various languages into Arabic
2,529
views
views
35
Old Comedy
earliest period of ancient Greek comedic drama
2,326
views
views
36
Restoration literature
literature written during the English restoration
2,238
views
views
37
Jena Romanticism
German philosophical and literary movement
2,145
views
views
38
Acmeist poetry
school of poetry
2,119
views
views
39
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
2,090
views
views
40
Progressive Writers' Movement
progressive literary movement in pre-partition British India
2,086
views
views
41
Sentimentalism
literary movement
2,037
views
views
42
Précieuses
art movement in literature
2,026
views
views
43
impressionism
movement in literature
1,972
views
views
44
New Formalism
movement in American poetry since the 1970s
1,920
views
views
45
San Francisco Renaissance
American avant-garde cultural activity in San Francisco as an historical hub
1,885
views
views
46
Vormärz
Period of German history before the 1848 revolution
1,861
views
views
47
proletarian literature
literature created by working-class writers mainly for the class-conscious proletariat
1,834
views
views
48
Catholic literary revival
1860-1960 movement in France and England
1,679
views
views
49
Black Mountain poets
group of mid-20th-century American postmodern poets
1,665
views
views
50
Modernismo
Spanish-American literary movement
1,601
views
views
51
euphuism
an affected bombastic style of language
1,545
views
views
52
Graveyard poets
pre-Romantic English poets of the 18th century
1,532
views
views
53
Dolce Stil Novo
literary movement
1,450
views
views
54
Costumbrismo
art movement
1,444
views
views
55
Atticism
rhetorical movement originating from 1st century BC Greece
1,440
views
views
56
visual poetry
poetry where the text’s layout, typography, and visual arrangement enhance its meaning, blending design with literary art
1,391
views
views
57
Latin translations of the 12th century
1,352
views
views
58
La Pléiade
group of French Renaissance poets
1,349
views
views
59
Young Germany
disestablishmentarian think tank consiting of young German artists from 1830-1850
1,335
views
views
60
The Movement
English literary movement of the 1950s
1,327
views
views
61
Native American Renaissance
Artistic movement
1,216
views
views
62
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.
1,199
views
views
63
Mahjar
Levantine diaspora's cultural movement
1,145
views
views
64
Hungry generation
1960s literary movement in the Bengali language
1,120
views
views
65
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
66
infrarealism
a poetic movement founded in Mexico City in 1975
1,083
views
views
67
Southern Renaissance
reinvigoration of Southern US literature in the 1920s–30s by authors such as W. Faulkner, T. Wolfe, C. Gordon, M. Mitchell
1,070
views
views
68
Ultraist movement
Spanish literary movement opposing modernism
1,057
views
views
69
McOndo
Latin American literary movement
994
views
views
70
Spanish mystics
Early modern Catholic mystics
967
views
views
71
Modern Breakthrough
Movement of naturalism and debating literature in Scandinavia
964
views
views
72
hermeticism
literary movement in poetry started in Italy
932
views
views
73
futurism
movement in literature
892
views
views
74
Trümmerliteratur
literary movement
805
views
views
75
Félibrige
association to promote Occitan language
794
views
views
76
Angry Penguins
art and literary movement in Australia
776
views
views
77
Barroquismo (barroco)
Spanish stylistic movement in the Baroque period
746
views
views
78
Augustan poetry
Roman poetry during Augustus's reign (27 BC-14 AD)
739
views
views
79
Ego-Futurism
Russian literary movement of the 1910s, developed within Russian Futurism by Igor Severyanin and his early followers
736
views
views
80
Shinkankakuha
Japanese literary group
735
views
views
81
imaginism
Russian poetry movement
728
views
views
82
Conceptismo
literary movement of the Baroque period of Portuguese and Spanish literature
709
views
views
83
ukiyozōshi
Japanese literature movement
689
views
views
84
verguismo
Italian literary movement
678
views
views
85
Scapigliatura
Milanese artistic and literary movement of the sixties of the 1800s
652
views
views
86
Zenitism
yugoslavian avant-garde art movement, from approximately 1921 to 1926
639
views
views
87
Kristiania Bohemians
634
views
views
88
Stridentism
Mexican literary movement
619
views
views
89
British Poetry Revival
poetry movement
610
views
views
90
Galician-Portuguese lyric
lyric and poetic movement
607
views
views
91
Jindyworobak Movement
Australian literary movement
600
views
views
92
créolité
literary movement first developed in the 1980s as a response to the perceived inadequacies of the négritude movement; neologism which attempts to describe the cultural and linguistic heterogeneity of places like the Antilles
565
views
views
93
Spanish Baroque literature
literary movement
559
views
views
94
Kailyard school
19th-century Scottish literary movement
557
views
views
95
Generation of '36
group of Spanish artists
545
views
views
96
Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies
school of Chinese literature in the early 20th century
515
views
views
97
Cockney School
group of 19th-century English poets and essayists
481
views
views
98
Ultra-Romanticism
19th century Portuguese literacy and artistic movement
473
views
views
99
nadaism
Colombian counterculture movement
470
views
views
100
Atomic bomb literature
Japanese literary genre
470
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