Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture: A Companion to European Romanticism
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture: A Companion to European Romanticism
Editor/Author
Ferber, Michael
Publication Year: 2005
Publisher: Wiley
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ISBN: 978-1-4051-1039-6
Category: Language & Literature - Literature
Book Status: Available
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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.
Table of Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction Michael Ferber
- 1 On Pre-Romanticism or Sensibility: Defining Ambivalences Inger S. B. Brodey
- 2 Shakespeare and European Romanticism Heike Grundmann
- 3 Scottish Romanticism and Scotland in Romanticism Fiona Stafford
- 4 Byron’s Influence on European Romanticism Peter Cochran
- 5 The Infinite Imagination: Early Romanticism in Germany Susan Bernofsky
- 6 From Autonomous Subjects to Self-regulating Structures: Rationality and Development in German Idealism Thomas Pfau
- 7 German Romantic Fiction Roger Paulin
- 8 The Romantic Fairy Tale Kari Lokke
- 9 German Romantic Drama Frederick Burwick
- 10 Early French Romanticism Fabienne Moore
- 11 The Poetry of Loss: Lamartine, Musset, and Nerval Jonathan Strauss
- 12 Victor Hugo’s Poetry E. H. and A. M. Blackmore
- 13 French Romantic Drama Barbara T. Cooper
- 14 Romantic Poetics in an Italian Context Piero Garofalo
- 15 Ugo Foscolo and Giacomo Leopardi: Italy’s Classical Romantics Margaret Brose
- 16 Spanish Romanticism Derek Flitter
- 17 Pushkin and Romanticism Michael Basker
- 18 Lermontov: Romanticism on the Brink of Realism Robert Reid
- 19 Adam Mickiewicz and the Shape of Polish Romanticism Roman Koropeckyj
- 20 The Revival of the Ode John Hamilton
- 21 “Unfinish’d Sentences”: The Romantic Fragment Elizabeth Wanning Harries
- 22 Romantic Irony Jocelyne Kolb
- 23 Sacrality and the Aesthetic in the Early Nineteenth Century Virgil Nemoianu
- 24 Nature James C. McKusick
- 25 Romanticism and Capitalism Robert Sayre and Michael Löwy
- 26 Napoleon and European Romanticism Simon Bainbridge
- 27 Orientalism Diego Saglia
- 28 A Continent of Corinnes: The Romantic Poetess and the Diffusion of Liberal Culture in Europe, 1815–50 Patrick Vincent
- 29 Lighting Up Night Lilian R. Furst
- 30 Romantic Opera Benjamin Walton
- 31 At Home with German Romantic Song James Parsons
- 32 The Romantic System of the Arts Michael Ferber