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.

Contents

Notes on contributors
Introduction by Michael Ferber (University of New Hampshire)
1. On Preromanticism or Sensibility: Defining Ambivalences: Inger Brodey (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
2. Shakespeare and European Romanticism: Heike Grundmann (University of Munich)
3. Scottish Romanticism and Scotland in Romanticism: Fiona Stafford (Somerville College , Oxford)
4. Byron's Influence on European Romanticism: Peter Cochran (editor Newstead Abbey Byron Society Review)
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 (Duke University)
7. German Romantic Fiction: Roger Paulin (Cambridge University)
8. The Romantic Fairy Tale: Kari Lokke (University of California, Davis)
9. German Romantic Drama: Frederick Burwick (UCLA)
10. Early French Romanticism: Fabienne Moore (University of Oregon at Eugene)
11. The Poetry of Loss: Lamartine, Musset, and Nerval: Jonathan Strauss (Miami University)
12. Victor Hugo's Poetry: E. H. and A. M. Blackmore (Curtin University of Technology, Australia)
13. French Romantic Drama: Barbara T. Cooper (University of New Hampshire)
14. Romantic Poetics in an Italian Context: Piero Garofalo (University of New Hampshire)
15. Ugo Foscolo and Giacomo Leopardi: Italy's Classical Romantics: Margaret Brose (University of California, Santa Cruz)
16. Spanish Romanticism: Derek Flitter (University of Birmingham)
17. Pushkin: Michael Basker (University of Bristol)
18. Lermontov: Romanticism on the Brink of Realism: Robert Reid (Keele University)
19. Adam Mickiewicz and the Shape of Polish Romanticism: Roman Koropeckyj (UCLA)
20. The Revival of the Ode: John Hamilton (Harvard University)
21. “Unfinish'd Sentences”: The Romantic Fragment: Elizabeth Harries (Smith College)
22. Romantic Irony: Jocelyne Kolb (Smith College)
23. Sacrality and the Aesthetic in the Early Nineteenth Century: Virgil Nemoianu (Catholic University of America)
24. Nature: James McKusick (University of Maryland)
25. Romanticism and Capitalism: Robert Sayre (University of Marne la-Vallée, France) and Michael Löwy (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France)
26. Napoleon and European Romanticism: Simon Bainbridge (Lancaster University)
27. Orientalism: Diego Saglia (University of Parma, Italy)
28. A Continent of Corinnes: The Romantic Poetess and the Diffusion of Liberal Culture in Europe, 1815-1850: Patrick Vincent (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
29. Lighting Up Night: Lilian Furst (University of North Carolina , Chapel Hill)
30. Romantic Opera: Benjamin Walton (University of Bristol)
31. At Home with German Romantic Song: James Parsons (Southwest Missouri State University)
32. The Romantic System of the Arts: Michael Ferber (University of New Hampshire)

Index

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

[Source: Blackwell Publishing]