Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages 1
2. General Preface 5
3. Editor's Perface 7
4. Table of contents 11
5. Tradition and Background
6. Romantic Irony and Cervantes 15
7. Sterne 33
8. National Manifestations
9. The Theory of Irony in German Romanticism 43
10. The Practice of Irony in Early German Romanticism 82
11. Modes of Romantic Irony in Nineteenth-Century France 97
12. The Ironic Recit in Portuguese Romanticism 121
13. Imagination and Irony in English Romantic Poetry 131
14. Thorbecke and the Resistance to Irony in the Netherlands 156
15. Romantic Irony in Scandinavinan Literature 178
16. Irony and World-Creation in the Work of Mihai Eminescu 188
17. Romantic Irony in Nineteenth-Century Hungarian Literature 202
18. Romantic Irony in Polish Literature and Criticism 225
19. Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol 241
20. Romantic Irony and the Southern Slavs 250
21. The Development of Romantic Irony in the United States 267
22. Syntheses
23. Romantic Irony and Narrative Stance 293
24. Musical Forms of Romantic Irony 310
25. Romantic Irony and the Grotesque 322
26. Romantic Irony in Modern Anti-Theater 343
27. Coda 358
28. Bibliography 383
29. Index 385