Romantic prose fiction and the shaping of social discourse in Spanish America

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Preface ix
3. Introduction xiii
4. Part I. Characteristic themes
5. The French Revolution and prose fiction: Allegorization of history and its defeat by Romance 1
6. Wertherism and the Romantic Weltanschauung 22
7. Romanticism and the idealisation of the artist 41
8. 'Unheard melodies and unseen pictures': The sister arts in Romantic fiction 53
9. Music and Romantic narration 69
10. Nature and landscape between exoticism and national areas of imagination 90
11. Mountain landscapes and the aesthetics of the sublime in Romantic narration 107
12. The 'wanderer' in Romantic prose fiction 122
13. Night-sides of existence: Madness, dream, etc. 139
14. Doubling, doubles, duplicity, bipolarity 168
15. Images of childhood in Romantic children's literature 183
16. Artificial life and Romantic brides 204
17. Romantic gender and sexuality 226
18. Part II. Paradigms of Romantic fiction
19. A. Generic types and representative texts
20. The Gothic novel as a Romantic narrative genre 249
21. Variants of the Romantic 'Bildungsroman' (with a short note on the 'artist novel') 263
22. Historical novel and historical Romance 296
23. The fairy-tale, the fantastic tale 325
24. The detective story and novel 345
25. Récit, story, tale, novella 364
26. The literary idyll in Germany, England, and Scandinavia 1770-1848 383
27. B. Modes of discourse and narrative structures
28. Address, relation, community: Boundaries and boundarycrossing in Romantic narration 412
29. Torn halves: Romantic narrative fiction between homophony and polyphony 435
30. The fragment as structuring force 452
31. Mirroring, abymization, potentiation (involution) 476
32. Romantic novel and verse Romance, 1750-1850: Is there a Romance continuum 496
33. Myth in Romantic prose fiction 517
34. From historical narrative to fiction and back: A dialectical game 527
35. Romantic prose fiction and the shaping of social discourse in Spanish America 537
36. Part III. Contributions of Romanticism to 19th and 20th century writing and thought
37. Narrative maneuvres in the 'periphery' the Spanish and Latin American novel during Romanticism 559
38. Romantic thought and style in 19th century Realism and Naturalism 580
39. Romantic legacies in fin-de-siècle and early 20th century fiction 596
40. Framing C.J.L. Almqvist: The narrative frame of Törnrosens bok and Romantic irony 610
41. Romanticism, occultism and the fantastic genre in Spain and Latin America 622
42. Romantic prose fiction in modern Japan: Finding an expression against the grain 643
43. Ludic prose from Laurence Sterne to Carlos Fuentes 655
44. Rewrites and remakes: Screen adaptations of Romantic works 664
45. Conclusion 695
46. Appendix (Table of Contents, vols. 1-4) 703
47. Index of Names in vol. 5 709