Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. I. General Introduction 1
5. II. Romantic Theoretical and Critical Writing 11
6. Theories of Romanticism 13
7. Romantic Disavowals of Romanticism, 1800–1830 37
8. Hegel and Hegelianism in European Romanticism 57
9. The Aesthetics of German Idealism and Its Reception in European Romanticism 69
10. Romantic Theories of National Literature and Language in Germany, England, and France 97
11. Sir Walter Scott and the Beginnings of Ethnology 107
12. III. Expansions in Time 115
13. Burke’s Conservatism and Its Echoes on the Continent and in the United States 117
14. Distorted Echoes 141
15. IV. Expansions in Space 163
16. Romantic Travel Narratives 165
17. Romanticism and Nonfictional Prose in Spanish America, 1780–1850 181
18. V. Expansions of the Self 195
19. Allegories of Address 197
20. The Romantic Subject in Autobiography 223
21. Educating for Women’s Future 241
22. VI. Generic Expansions 265
23. The Romantic Familiar Essay 267
24. The Unending Conversation 285
25. Almanacs and Romantic Non-fictional Prose 303
26. The Romantic Pamphlet 317
27. Costumbrismo in Spanish Literature and its European Analogues 333
28. VII. Intersections: Scientific and Artistic Discourses in the Romantic Age 347
29. Romanticism, the Unconscious, and the Brain 349
30. Literary Sources of Romantic Psychology 365
31. Romantic Discourse on the Visual Arts 377
32. Aspects of German Romantic Musical Discourse 403
33. VIII. Intimations of Transcendence 421
34. Sacrality as Aesthetic in the Early Nineteenth Century 423
35. The Myth of the Fallen Angel 433
36. IX. Conclusion 459
37. Index 467