Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: The Polyvalence of Romanticism 1
5. Part I. Romanticism and the Literatures
6. 1: Werther and Harold: Rapport and Difference in the Literary Articulation of the Romantic Subject 13
7. 2: Balzac and the French New Wave: A Problematic but Enticing Relationship 34
8. 3: Romantic Relations and Constructive Affinities: Notions of Family in Kater Murr 49
9. 4: Françoise’s Way and Bloch’s Way: Two Paths of French Romanticism in Proust’s À la recherche 66
10. Part II. Romanticism, Music, and the Visual Arts
11. 5: Liminal Transgressions: Gautier’s Vampires in Giselle and La morte amoureuse 81
12. 6: The Iconography of Girodet’s Endymion during the French Revolution 96
13. Part III. Romanticism and Science, Technology, Philosophy
14. 7: A Romantic Scientist in Percy Shelley’s Alastor 123
15. 8: Canines and Other Quadrupeds: Human and Animal Relations Staged in Romantic Drama 138
16. 9: Goethe and Individuation 159
17. Notes on the Contributors 173
18. Index 175