<p><b>This companion is the first book of its kind to focus on the whole of European Romanticism.</b></p> <ul> <li>Describes the way in which the Romantic Movement swept across Europe in the early nineteenth century.</li> <li>Covers the national literatures of France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia and Spain.</li> <li>Addresses common themes that cross national borders, such as orientalism, Napoleon, night, nature, and the prestige of the fragment.</li> <li>Includes cross-disciplinary essays on literature and music, literature and painting, and the general system of Romantic arts.</li> <li>Features 35 essays in all, from leading scholars in America, Australia, Britain, France, Italy, and Switzerland.</li> </ul>
