Trending Literary Movements in USA — the 12 months to November 2026
The 100 most-viewed literary movements on Wikipedia, the 12 months to November 2026 (English-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Dada. Data as of 1 November 2026.
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Ranked
984,868
Total Views (the 12 months to November 2026)
1
Dada
avant-garde art movement in the early 20th century
159,140
views
views
2
Romanticism
artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement
132,052
views
views
3
avant-garde
works that are experimental or innovative
83,351
views
views
4
Beat Generation
literary movement
72,007
views
views
5
ero guro
literary and artistic movement originating circa 1930 in Japan
36,578
views
views
6
Aestheticism
art movement emphasizing aesthetic considerations over social values
31,888
views
views
7
Sturm und Drang
Proto-Romantic movement in German literature and music
31,168
views
views
8
postmodern literature
literary form and movement of the twentieth century
29,547
views
views
9
Decadent movement
late-19th-century artistic and literary movement centered in Western Europe
28,898
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
26,514
views
views
11
literary realism
literary movement
20,818
views
views
12
modernist literature
characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional styles of poetry and verse
20,173
views
views
13
Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies
school of Chinese literature in the early 20th century
17,006
views
views
14
naturalism
literary movement
15,028
views
views
15
Japonisme
European imitation of Japanese art during the 19th and 20th centuries
13,965
views
views
16
Victorian literature
literature during the period of Queen Victoria's reign
13,649
views
views
17
cosmicism
literary philosophy
13,277
views
views
18
Spanish Golden Age
period of flourishing in arts and literature in Spain
12,872
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
10,055
views
views
20
vorticism
short-lived modernist movement in British art and poetry of the early 20th century
9,790
views
views
21
Catalan modernism
architectural and artistic movement originating in late-19th-century Catalonia, Spain
8,647
views
views
22
Imagism
20th-century poetry movement
8,602
views
views
23
impressionism
movement in literature
7,960
views
views
24
New Culture Movement
revolt against Confucian values
7,329
views
views
25
Latín mmg todos
late 20th global century proliferation of Latin American literature
6,831
views
views
26
Dalit Panther
social organization
6,673
views
views
27
Generation of '98
literary movement in Spain at the time of the Spanish–American War
6,327
views
views
28
Romantic literature
literature of the Romantic Period
6,153
views
views
29
Weimar Classicism
German literary and cultural movement, whose practitioners established a new humanism
5,523
views
views
30
Neo-romanticism
movements from the era of Romanticism
5,358
views
views
31
Renaissance literature
European literature influenced by the Renaissance
5,000
views
views
32
parnassianism
19th century French literary movement
4,642
views
views
33
dirty realism
subgenre of literature
4,565
views
views
34
Nouveau Roman
French literary movement
4,283
views
views
35
Translation Movement
movement that resulted in the translation of texts from various languages into Arabic
3,855
views
views
36
Southern Agrarians
twelve authors of the Southern Agrarians manifesto
3,677
views
views
37
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
3,435
views
views
38
Old Comedy
earliest period of ancient Greek comedic drama
3,397
views
views
39
Restoration literature
literature written during the English restoration
3,270
views
views
40
Acmeist poetry
school of poetry
3,269
views
views
41
Jena Romanticism
German philosophical and literary movement
3,265
views
views
42
Sentimentalism
literary movement
3,191
views
views
43
Progressive Writers' Movement
progressive literary movement in pre-partition British India
2,973
views
views
44
Précieuses
art movement in literature
2,970
views
views
45
proletarian literature
literature created by working-class writers mainly for the class-conscious proletariat
2,891
views
views
46
Vormärz
Period of German history before the 1848 revolution
2,877
views
views
47
San Francisco Renaissance
American avant-garde cultural activity in San Francisco as an historical hub
2,846
views
views
48
New Formalism
movement in American poetry since the 1970s
2,788
views
views
49
Black Mountain poets
group of mid-20th-century American postmodern poets
2,562
views
views
50
Catholic literary revival
1860-1960 movement in France and England
2,439
views
views
51
Graveyard poets
pre-Romantic English poets of the 18th century
2,353
views
views
52
Modernismo
Spanish-American literary movement
2,337
views
views
53
euphuism
an affected bombastic style of language
2,329
views
views
54
Dolce Stil Novo
literary movement
2,311
views
views
55
Costumbrismo
art movement
2,228
views
views
56
visual poetry
poetry where the text’s layout, typography, and visual arrangement enhance its meaning, blending design with literary art
2,178
views
views
57
Atticism
rhetorical movement originating from 1st century BC Greece
2,160
views
views
58
Young Germany
disestablishmentarian think tank consiting of young German artists from 1830-1850
2,052
views
views
59
Native American Renaissance
Artistic movement
1,981
views
views
60
La Pléiade
group of French Renaissance poets
1,958
views
views
61
The Movement
English literary movement of the 1950s
1,945
views
views
62
Latin translations of the 12th century
1,943
views
views
63
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
1,903
views
views
64
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.
1,827
views
views
65
Mahjar
Levantine diaspora's cultural movement
1,667
views
views
66
infrarealism
a poetic movement founded in Mexico City in 1975
1,611
views
views
67
Hungry generation
1960s literary movement in the Bengali language
1,606
views
views
68
Southern Renaissance
reinvigoration of Southern US literature in the 1920s–30s by authors such as W. Faulkner, T. Wolfe, C. Gordon, M. Mitchell
1,562
views
views
69
Ultraist movement
Spanish literary movement opposing modernism
1,555
views
views
70
hermeticism
literary movement in poetry started in Italy
1,470
views
views
71
Modern Breakthrough
Movement of naturalism and debating literature in Scandinavia
1,465
views
views
72
futurism
movement in literature
1,360
views
views
73
McOndo
Latin American literary movement
1,348
views
views
74
Angry Penguins
art and literary movement in Australia
1,326
views
views
75
Spanish mystics
Early modern Catholic mystics
1,297
views
views
76
Trümmerliteratur
literary movement
1,233
views
views
77
Félibrige
association to promote Occitan language
1,150
views
views
78
Ego-Futurism
Russian literary movement of the 1910s, developed within Russian Futurism by Igor Severyanin and his early followers
1,148
views
views
79
Shinkankakuha
Japanese literary group
1,130
views
views
80
Barroquismo (barroco)
Spanish stylistic movement in the Baroque period
1,084
views
views
81
Augustan poetry
Roman poetry during Augustus's reign (27 BC-14 AD)
1,057
views
views
82
Conceptismo
literary movement of the Baroque period of Portuguese and Spanish literature
1,046
views
views
83
imaginism
Russian poetry movement
1,039
views
views
84
British Poetry Revival
poetry movement
1,036
views
views
85
Scapigliatura
Milanese artistic and literary movement of the sixties of the 1800s
1,023
views
views
86
verguismo
Italian literary movement
1,014
views
views
87
Zenitism
yugoslavian avant-garde art movement, from approximately 1921 to 1926
992
views
views
88
Kristiania Bohemians
975
views
views
89
ukiyozōshi
Japanese literature movement
952
views
views
90
Galician-Portuguese lyric
lyric and poetic movement
939
views
views
91
Jindyworobak Movement
Australian literary movement
922
views
views
92
Stridentism
Mexican literary movement
921
views
views
93
Spanish Baroque literature
literary movement
862
views
views
94
Kailyard school
19th-century Scottish literary movement
860
views
views
95
Generation of '36
group of Spanish artists
832
views
views
96
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
822
views
views
97
Atomic bomb literature
Japanese literary genre
704
views
views
98
Cockney School
group of 19th-century English poets and essayists
675
views
views
99
nadaism
Colombian counterculture movement
654
views
views
100
Alliterative Revival
resurgence of poetry using the alliterative verse form in Middle English between c. 1350 and 1500
652
views
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