Table of Contents

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: William 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 Uhlig: Goethe's Figurative Method
18: Dennis Mahoney: Heidelberg, Dresden, Berlin, Vienna
19: Richard Aczel: Hungarian Romanticism: Re-Imagining (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: Rodney 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

About the Author

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).

Reviews

The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism is a splendid volume that fills a need. ... This rigorous survey of the broad European movement of Romanticism is thus a welcome reference counterpoint to what currently exists for students and researchers. Hamilton made the deft editorial decision to divide the handbook into two sections: "Language" and "Discourses". Considering the topic by language does justice to the critical and creative communities that saw themselves as such while avoiding the anachronistic awkwardness of referring to nations or states that did not or no longer exist. This division also allows the volume to strike a nice balance between topics one would expect and topics that are refreshingly innovative ("Discourses"). ... Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers.
*S. Barnett, CHOICE*

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.
*Carmen Casaliggi, Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780-1840*