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