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In this volume a team of three dozen international experts presents a fresh picture of literary prose fiction in the Romantic age seen from cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspectives. The work treats the appearance of major themes in characteristically Romantic versions, the power of Romantic discourse to reshape imaginative writing, and a series of crucial reactions to the impact of Romanticism on cultural life down to the present, both in Europe and in the New World. Through its combination of chapters on thematic, generic, and discursive features, Romantic Prose Fiction achieves a unique theoretical stance, by considering the opinions of primary Romantics and their successors not as guiding "truths" by which to define the permanent "meaning" of Romanticism, but as data of cultural history that shed important light on an evolving civilization.
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Contents
1. Preface; 2. Introduction (by Gillespie, Gerald); 3. Part I. Characteristic themes; 4. The French Revolution and prose fiction: Allegorization of history and its defeat by Romance (by Hoffmeister, Gerhart); 5. Wertherism and the Romantic Weltanschauung (by Dieterle, Bernard); 6. Romanticism and the idealisation of the artist (by Maertz, Gregory); 7. 'Unheard melodies and unseen pictures': The sister arts in Romantic fiction (by Szegedy-Maszak, Mihaly); 8. Music and Romantic narration (by Albert, Claudia); 9. Nature and landscape between exoticism and national areas of imagination (by Graeber, Wilhelm); 10. Mountain landscapes and the aesthetics of the sublime in Romantic narration (by Giacomoni, Paola); 11. The 'wanderer' in Romantic prose fiction (by Lorant, Andre); 12. Night-sides of existence: Madness, dream, etc. (by Schmitz-Emans, Monika); 13. Doubling, doubles, duplicity, bipolarity (by Grabovszki, Ernst); 14. Images of childhood in Romantic children's literature (by Kummerling-Meibauer, Bettina); 15. Artificial life and Romantic brides (by Andermatt, Michael); 16. Romantic gender and sexuality (by Klinkert, Thomas); 17. Part II. Paradigms of Romantic fiction; 18. A. Generic types and representative texts; 19. The Gothic novel as a Romantic narrative genre (by Gorp, Hendrik van); 20. Variants of the Romantic 'Bildungsroman' (with a short note on the 'artist novel') (by Engel, Manfred); 21. Historical novel and historical Romance (by Bernauer, Markus); 22. The fairy-tale, the fantastic tale (by Steigerwald, Jorn); 23. The detective story and novel (by Gillespie, Gerald); 24. Recit, story, tale, novella (by Guerrero-Strachan, Santiago Rodriguez); 25. The literary idyll in Germany, England, and Scandinavia 1770-1848 (by Halse, Sven); 26. B. Modes of discourse and narrative structures; 27. Address, relation, community: Boundaries and boundarycrossing in Romantic narration (by Garber, Frederick); 28. Torn halves: Romantic narrative fiction between homophony and polyphony (by Spiridon, Monica); 29. The fragment as structuring force (by Ceserani, Remo); 30. Mirroring, abymization, potentiation (involution) (by Rossbach, Sabine); 31. Romantic novel and verse Romance, 1750-1850: Is there a Romance continuum (by Isbell, John Clairborn); 32. Myth in Romantic prose fiction (by Figueira, Dorothy); 33. From historical narrative to fiction and back: A dialectical game (by Nemoianu, Virgil); 34. Romantic prose fiction and the shaping of social discourse in Spanish America (by Paatz, Annette); 35. Part III. Contributions of Romanticism to 19th and 20th century writing and thought; 36. Narrative maneuvres in the 'periphery' the Spanish and Latin American novel during Romanticism (by Talvet, Juri); 37. Romantic thought and style in 19th century Realism and Naturalism (by Smoot, Jeanne); 38. Romantic legacies in fin-de-siecle and early 20th century fiction (by Black, Joel); 39. Framing C.J.L. Almqvist: The narrative frame of Tornrosens bok and Romantic irony (by Sondrup, Steven P.); 40. Romanticism, occultism and the fantastic genre in Spain and Latin America (by Chaves, Jose Ricardo); 41. Romantic prose fiction in modern Japan: Finding an expression against the grain (by Yokota-Murakami, Takayuki); 42. Ludic prose from Laurence Sterne to Carlos Fuentes (by Aldridge, A. Owen); 43. Rewrites and remakes: Screen adaptations of Romantic works (by Martin, Elaine); 44. Conclusion (by Gillespie, Gerald); 45. Appendix (Table of Contents, vols. 1-4); 46. Index of Names in vol. 5