A Companion to European Romanticism [Hardcover]

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• Describes the way in which the Romantic Movement swept across Europe in the early nineteenth century.
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• Covers the national literatures of France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia and Spain.
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• Addresses common themes that cross national borders, such as orientalism, Napoleon, night, nature, and the prestige of the fragment.
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• Includes cross-disciplinary essays on literature and music, literature and painting, and the general system of Romantic arts.
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• Features 35 essays in all, from leading scholars in America, Australia, Britain, France, Italy, and Switzerland.

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

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