Romantic Prose Fiction

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