A Companion to European Romanticism

by Ferber, Michael

• ISBN13: 9781405110396
• ISBN10: 1405110392
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-01-09
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Michael Ferber is Professor of English and Humanities at the University of New Hampshire. His previous publications include The Social Vision of William Blake (1985), The Poetry of William Blake (1991), The Poetry of Shelley (1993), A Dictionary of Literary Symbols (1999), and an anthology, European Romantic Poetry (2005).

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	viii
Introduction	1	(9)
Michael Ferber
On Pre-Romanticism or Sensibility: Defining Ambivalences	10	(19)
Inger S. B. Brodey
Shakespeare and European Romanticism	29	(20)
Heike Grundmann
Scottish Romanticism and Scotland in Romanticism	49	(18)
Fiona Stafford
Byron's Influence on European Romanticism	67	(19)
Peter Cochran
The Infinite Imagination: Early Romanticism in Germany	86	(15)
Susan Bernofsky
From Autonomous Subjects to Self-regulating Structures: Rationality and Development in German Idealism	101	(22)
Thomas Pfau
German Romantic Fiction	123	(15)
Roger Paulin
The Romantic Fairy Tale	138	(19)
Kari Lokke
German Romantic Drama	157	(15)
Frederick Burwick
Early French Romanticism	172	(20)
Fabienne Moore
The Poetry of Loss: Lamartine, Musset, and Nerval	192	(16)
Jonathan Strauss
Victor Hugo's Poetry	208	(16)
A. M. Blackmore
French Romantic Drama	224	(14)
Barbara T. Cooper
Romantic Poetics in an Italian Context	238	(18)
Piero Garofalo
Ugo Foscolo and Giacomo Leopardi: Italy's Classical Romantics	256	(20)
Margaret Brose
Spanish Romanticism	276	(17)
Derek Flitter
Pushkin and Romanticism	293	(16)
Michael Basker
Lermontov: Romanticism on the Brink of Realism	309	(17)
Robert Reid
Adam Mickiewicz and the Shape of Polish Romanticism	326	(19)
Roman Koropeckyj
The Revival of the Ode	345	(15)
John Hamilton
``Unfinish'd Sentences'': The Romantic Fragment	360	(16)
Elizabeth Wanning Harries
Romantic Irony	376	(17)
Jocelyne Kolb
Sacrality and the Aesthetic in the Early Nineteenth Century	393	(20)
Virgil Nemoianu
Nature	413	(20)
James C. McKusick
Romanticism and Capitalism	433	(17)
Robert Sayre
Michael Lowy
Napoleon and European Romanticism	450	(17)
Simon Bainbridge
Orientalism	467	(19)
Diego Saglia
A Continent of Corinnes: The Romantic Poetess and the Diffusion of Liberal Culture in Europe, 1815-50	486	(19)
Patrick Vincent
Lighting Up Night	505	(17)
Lilian R. Furst
Romantic Opera	522	(16)
Benjamin Walton
At Home with German Romantic Song	538	(14)
James Parsons
The Romantic System of the Arts	552	(19)
Michael Ferber
Index	571