A companion to European romanticism / edited by Michael Ferber.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ferber, Michael.

Series:

Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 38.

Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 38

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romanticism.

Literary movements.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (602 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005.

Language Note:

English

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.<l

Contents:

A Companion to European Romanticism; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 On Pre-Romanticism or Sensibility: Defining Ambivalences; 2 Shakespeare and European Romanticism; 3 Scottish Romanticism and Scotland in Romanticism; 4 Byron's Influence on European Romanticism; 5 The Infinite Imagination: Early Romanticism in Germany; 6 From Autonomous Subjects to Self-regulating Structures: Rationality and Development in German Idealism; 7 German Romantic Fiction; 8 The Romantic Fairy Tale; 9 German Romantic Drama; 10 Early French Romanticism

11 The Poetry of Loss: Lamartine, Musset, and Nerval12 Victor Hugo's Poetry; 13 French Romantic Drama; 14 Romantic Poetics in an Italian Context; 15 Ugo Foscolo and Giacomo Leopardi: Italy's Classical Romantics; 16 Spanish Romanticism; 17 Pushkin and Romanticism; 18 Lermontov: Romanticism on the Brink of Realism; 19 Adam Mickiewicz and the Shape of Polish Romanticism; 20 The Revival of the Ode; 21 ''Unfinish'd Sentences'': The Romantic Fragment; 22 Romantic Irony; 23 Sacrality and the Aesthetic in the Early Nineteenth Century; 24 Nature; 25 Romanticism and Capitalism

26 Napoleon and European Romanticism27 Orientalism; 28 A Continent of Corinnes: The Romantic Poetess and the Diffusion of Liberal Culture in Europe, 1815-50; 29 Lighting Up Night; 30 Romantic Opera; 31 At Home with German Romantic Song; 32 The Romantic System of the Arts; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786610362042

9781782684619

1782684611

9781280362040

1280362049

9781405168755

1405168757

9780470996607

0470996609

9781405154536

1405154535

OCLC:

184983643