A Companion to European Romanticism

This companion is the first book of its kind to focus on the whole of European Romanticism. Describes the way in which the Romantic Movement swept across Europe in the early nineteenth century. Covers the national literatures of France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia and Spain. Addresses common themes that cross national borders, such as orientalism, Napoleon, night, nature, and the prestige of the fragment. Includes cross-disciplinary essays on literature and music, literature and painting, and the general system of Romantic arts. Features 35 essays in all, from leading scholars in America, Australia, Britain, France, Italy, and Switzerland.

This companion is the first book of its kind to focus on the whole of European Romanticism.* Describes the way in which the Romantic Movement swept across Europe in the early nineteenth century.* Covers the national literatures of France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia and Spain.* Addresses common themes that cross national borders, such as orientalism, Napoleon, night, nature, and the prestige of the fragment.* Includes cross-disciplinary essays on literature and music, literature and painting, and the general system of Romantic arts.* Features 35 essays in all, from leading scholars in America, Australia, Britain, France, Italy, and Switzerland.

Notes on Contributors viiiIntroduction 1Michael Ferber1 On Pre-Romanticism or Sensibility: Defining Ambivalences 10Inger S. B. Brodey2 Shakespeare and European Romanticism 29Heike Grundmann3 Scottish Romanticism and Scotland in Romanticism 49Fiona Stafford4 Byron's Influence on European Romanticism 67Peter Cochran5 The Infinite Imagination: Early Romanticism in Germany 86Susan Bernofsky6 From Autonomous Subjects to Self-regulating Structures: Rationality and Development in German Idealism 101Thomas Pfau7 German Romantic Fiction 123Roger Paulin8 The Romantic Fairy Tale 138Kari Lokke9 German Romantic Drama 157Frederick Burwick10 Early French Romanticism 172Fabienne Moore11 The Poetry of Loss: Lamartine, Musset, and Nerval 192Jonathan Strauss12 Victor Hugo's Poetry 208E. H. and A. M. Blackmore13 French Romantic Drama 224Barbara T. Cooper14 Romantic Poetics in an Italian Context 238Piero Garofalo15 Ugo Foscolo and Giacomo Leopardi: Italy's Classical Romantics 256Margaret Brose16 Spanish Romanticism 276Derek Flitter17 Pushkin and Romanticism 293Michael Basker18 Lermontov: Romanticism on the Brink of Realism 309Robert Reid19 Adam Mickiewicz and the Shape of Polish Romanticism 326Roman Koropeckyj20 The Revival of the Ode 345John Hamilton21 ''Unfinish'd Sentences'': The Romantic Fragment 360Elizabeth Wanning Harries22 Romantic Irony 376Jocelyne Kolb23 Sacrality and the Aesthetic in the Early Nineteenth Century 393Virgil Nemoianu24 Nature 413James C. McKusick25 Romanticism and Capitalism 433Robert Sayre and Michael Löwy26 Napoleon and European Romanticism 450Simon Bainbridge27 Orientalism 467Diego Saglia28 A Continent of Corinnes: The Romantic Poetess and the Diffusion of Liberal Culture in Europe, 1815-50 486Patrick Vincent29 Lighting Up Night 505Lilian R. Furst30 Romantic Opera 522Benjamin Walton31 At Home with German Romantic Song 538James Parsons32 The Romantic System of the Arts 552Michael FerberIndex 571