1st Edition
Tracing Women's Romanticism Gender, History, and Transcendence
Introduction. Romantic Abandon
1. 'The Vast Tableau of Destinies' : Germaine de Staël, Enthusiasm, and Melancholy
2. 'The Sweet Reward of all our Toil' : Content of Mind in Mary Shelley's Valperga 3. Beyond Impossibility: Bettine von Arnim's Die Günderode, 'An Ideal Relation Realized' 4. Rewriting Romanticism: George Sand's Consuelo and Revolutionary History
Epilogue. Isak Dinesen's The Dreamers, Comic Flight, and the Winds of Fate
Biography
Kari Lokke is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Gérard de Nerval: The Poet as Social Visionary (1987) and co-editor of Rebellious Hearts: British Women Writers and the French Revolution (2001).
