Stephen Harrison is Senior Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Oxford, where he has studied and worked since 1987. He has held visiting positions at Rome, Siena, Bergen, Copenhagen, Princeton IAS, Stanford, Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem, Dunedin, and Christchurch, and holds such posts currently at Trondheim and Stellenbosch. He is a member of the Academia Europaea, the Accademia Vergiliana di Mantova, the Norwegian Academy of Sciences, and the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences.Regine May is Associate Professor in Latin Language and Literature at the University of Leeds, where she has worked since 2006, after previously holding positions at the Universities of Oxford and Merton College (2004-6), Durham (2003-4), and Manchester (2001-3). Her DPhil from Oxford on Apuleius and Drama (2002) was supervised by Stephen Harrison and Peter G. McC Brown.

• Preface List of illustrations 1: Introduction 2: 'Cupid and Psyche' in France--1650-1815 3: 'Cupid and Psyche' in Germany--1750-1850 4: 'Cupid and Psyche' in English Romanticism and after 5: 'Cupid and Psyche' and the Victorians 6: 'Cupid and Psyche', Decadence, and Fairy Tales--1885-1905 7: 'Cupid and Psyche' in English since 1900 Bibliography Index

The creation of this outstanding volume - both in terms of its content and its typographical and material presentation - fully comes into its own and gains its rightful place by standing as the rich outcome of a reworking of earlier scholarship, bringing together different epistemological approaches and new perspectives rooted in literary and interdisciplinary comparatism.

Stephen Harrison is Senior Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Oxford, where he has studied and worked since 1987. He has held visiting positions at Rome, Siena, Bergen, Copenhagen, Princeton IAS, Stanford, Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem, Dunedin, and Christchurch, and holds such posts currently at Trondheim and Stellenbosch. He is a member of the Academia Europaea, the Accademia Vergiliana di Mantova, the Norwegian Academy of Sciences, and the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences.Regine May is Associate Professor in Latin Language and Literature at the University of Leeds, where she has worked since 2006, after previously holding positions at the Universities of Oxford and Merton College (2004-6), Durham (2003-4), and Manchester (2001-3). Her DPhil from Oxford on Apuleius and Drama (2002) was supervised by Stephen Harrison and Peter G. McC Brown.

• Preface List of illustrations 1: Introduction 2: 'Cupid and Psyche' in France--1650-1815 3: 'Cupid and Psyche' in Germany--1750-1850 4: 'Cupid and Psyche' in English Romanticism and after 5: 'Cupid and Psyche' and the Victorians 6: 'Cupid and Psyche', Decadence, and Fairy Tales--1885-1905 7: 'Cupid and Psyche' in English since 1900 Bibliography Index

The creation of this outstanding volume - both in terms of its content and its typographical and material presentation - fully comes into its own and gains its rightful place by standing as the rich outcome of a reworking of earlier scholarship, bringing together different epistemological approaches and new perspectives rooted in literary and interdisciplinary comparatism.

Stephen Harrison is Senior Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Oxford, where he has studied and worked since 1987. He has held visiting positions at Rome, Siena, Bergen, Copenhagen, Princeton IAS, Stanford, Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem, Dunedin, and Christchurch, and holds such posts currently at Trondheim and Stellenbosch. He is a member of the Academia Europaea, the Accademia Vergiliana di Mantova, the Norwegian Academy of Sciences, and the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences.Regine May is Associate Professor in Latin Language and Literature at the University of Leeds, where she has worked since 2006, after previously holding positions at the Universities of Oxford and Merton College (2004-6), Durham (2003-4), and Manchester (2001-3). Her DPhil from Oxford on Apuleius and Drama (2002) was supervised by Stephen Harrison and Peter G. McC Brown.

• Preface List of illustrations 1: Introduction 2: 'Cupid and Psyche' in France--1650-1815 3: 'Cupid and Psyche' in Germany--1750-1850 4: 'Cupid and Psyche' in English Romanticism and after 5: 'Cupid and Psyche' and the Victorians 6: 'Cupid and Psyche', Decadence, and Fairy Tales--1885-1905 7: 'Cupid and Psyche' in English since 1900 Bibliography Index

The creation of this outstanding volume - both in terms of its content and its typographical and material presentation - fully comes into its own and gains its rightful place by standing as the rich outcome of a reworking of earlier scholarship, bringing together different epistemological approaches and new perspectives rooted in literary and interdisciplinary comparatism.