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.

Table of Contents:
Notes on Contributors viii Introduction 1 Michael Ferber 1 On Pre-Romanticism or Sensibility: Defining Ambivalences 10 Inger S. B. Brodey 2 Shakespeare and European Romanticism 29 Heike Grundmann 3 Scottish Romanticism and Scotland in Romanticism 49 Fiona Stafford 4 Byron’s Influence on European Romanticism 67 Peter Cochran 5 The Infinite Imagination: Early Romanticism in Germany 86 Susan Bernofsky 6 From Autonomous Subjects to Self-regulating Structures: Rationality and Development in German Idealism 101 Thomas Pfau 7 German Romantic Fiction 123 Roger Paulin 8 The Romantic Fairy Tale 138 Kari Lokke 9 German Romantic Drama 157 Frederick Burwick 10 Early French Romanticism 172 Fabienne Moore 11 The Poetry of Loss: Lamartine, Musset, and Nerval 192 Jonathan Strauss 12 Victor Hugo’s Poetry 208 E. H. and A. M. Blackmore 13 French Romantic Drama 224 Barbara T. Cooper 14 Romantic Poetics in an Italian Context 238 Piero Garofalo 15 Ugo Foscolo and Giacomo Leopardi: Italy’s Classical Romantics 256 Margaret Brose 16 Spanish Romanticism 276 Derek Flitter 17 Pushkin and Romanticism 293 Michael Basker 18 Lermontov: Romanticism on the Brink of Realism 309 Robert Reid 19 Adam Mickiewicz and the Shape of Polish Romanticism 326 Roman Koropeckyj 20 The Revival of the Ode 345 John Hamilton 21 ‘‘Unfinish’d Sentences’’: The Romantic Fragment 360 Elizabeth Wanning Harries 22 Romantic Irony 376 Jocelyne Kolb 23 Sacrality and the Aesthetic in the Early Nineteenth Century 393 Virgil Nemoianu 24 Nature 413 James C. McKusick 25 Romanticism and Capitalism 433 Robert Sayre and Michael Löwy 26 Napoleon and European Romanticism 450 Simon Bainbridge 27 Orientalism 467 Diego Saglia 28 A Continent of Corinnes: The Romantic Poetess and the Diffusion of Liberal Culture in Europe, 1815-50 486 Patrick Vincent 29 Lighting Up Night 505 Lilian R. Furst 30 Romantic Opera 522 Benjamin Walton 31 At Home with German Romantic Song 538 James Parsons 32 The Romantic System of the Arts 552 Michael Ferber Index 571