The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism

Paul Hamilton read English and Philosophy at Glasgow University. He took a D.Phil. at Oxford University, where he was a Junior Research Fellow, and then College Lecturer at Balliol College. Following posts at the University of Nottingham, Exeter College, Oxford, and the University of Southampton, he became Professor of English at Queen Mary University of London in 1996. Hamilton is the author of Metaromanticism (University of Chicago Press, 2003), Coleridge and German Philosophy (Bloomsbury, 2007), and Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics (OUP,2013).

• Paul Hamilton: Introduction 1: Caroline Warman: Pre-Romantic French Thought 2: Biancamaria Fontana: Literary History and Political Theory in Germaine de Staël's Idea of Europe 3: Jean-Marie Roulin: François-René de Chateaubriand: Migrations and Revolution 4: Francesco Manzini: Stendhal 5: Bradley Stephens: The Novel and the (Il)legibility of History: Victor Hugo, Honoré de Balzac, and Alexandre Dumas 6: Sotirios Paraschas: Romantic Drama: The Mask of Genius 7: Katherine Lunn-Rockliffe: French Romantic Poetry 8: Francesco Manzini: Frenetic Romanticism 9: Alexander Regier: Johann Georg Hamann: Metacritique and Poesis in Counter-Enlightenment 10: Andrew Bowie: Freedom, Reason, and Art in Idealist and Romantic Philosophy 11: WM. Arctander O'Brien: Friedrich von Hardenberg (Pseudonym Novalis) 12: Maike Oergel: Jena 1789-1819: Ideas, Poetry, and Politics 13: Astrid Weigert: Gender and Genre in the Works of German Romantic Women Writers 14: Tim Mehigan: The Scepticism of Heinrich von Kleist 15: Rüdiger Görner: Friedrich Hölderlin's Romantic Classicism 16: Angus Nicholls: Goethe the Writer 17: Stefan H. Uhlig: Goethe's Figurative Method 18: Dennis F. Mahoney: Heidelberg, Dresden, Berlin, Vienna 19: Richard Aczel: Hungarian Romanticism: Reimagining (Literary) History 20: Joseph Luzzi: The Task of Italian Romanticism: Literary Form and Polemical Response 21: Michael Caesar: Voice, Speaking, Silence in Leopardi's Verse 22: Franco D'Intino: Leopardi as a Writer of Prose 23: Giuseppe Gazzola: 'European Man and Writer': Romanticism, the Classics, and Political Action in the Exemplary Life of Ugo Foscolo 24: Jonathan White: Manzoni's Persistence 25: Derek Flitter: Personal Demons and the Spectre of Tradition in Spanish Romantic Drama 26: Andrew Kahn: Russian Literature between Classicism and Romanticism: Poetry, Feeling, Subjectivity 27: Luba Golburt: Alexander Pushkin as a Romantic 28: Katya Hokanson: The Geography of Russian Romantic Prose: Bestuzhev, Lermontov, Gogol, and Early Dostoevsky 29: Monika Coghen: Polish Romanticism 30: Klaus Müller-Wille: Scandinavian Romanticism 31: Roderick Beaton: The Romantic Construction of Greece 32: Roberto Dainotto: Geographies of Historical Discourse 33: Paul Stock: Histories of Geography 34: Douglas Moggach: Romantic Political Thought 35: Benjamin Dawson: Science and the Scientific Disciplines 36: Leon Chai: Life and Death in Paris: Medical and Life Sciences in the Romantic Era 37: Thomas Pfau: Religion 38: Diego Saglia: Theatre, Drama, and Vision in the Romantic Age: Stages of the New 39: Angela Esterhammer: Identity Crises: Celebrity, Anonymity, Doubles, and Frauds in European Romanticism 40: Jan Fellerer: Theories of Language 41: Patrick Vincent: Europe's Discourse of Britain Index

This volume shows how Romanticism can still teach us to read and see. It breathes enthusiasm and scholarly care in a way that appeals to a wide range of readers. The choice of contributors is harmonious and refreshing. Containing useful, reader-friendly features such as suggestions for further reading, this clear and engaging Handbook is an invaluable resource for anyone who intends to study and research the complexity and diversity of the Romantic period, as well as the historical conditions that produced it -- thereby appealing to a genuinely interdisciplinary audience.