Rock and Romanticism

1. Introduction: Theorizing Rock/Historicizing Romanticism
James Rovira

2. Empathy for the Devil: The Origins of Mick Jagger’s Devil in John Milton’s London
Evan LaBuzetta

3. “Bliss was it in that shirt to be alive”: Connecting Romanticism and New Romanticism through Dress
Emily A. Bernhard-Jackson

4. “Crying like a woman ‘cause I’m mad like a man”: Chrissie Hynde, Gender, and Romantic Irony
Sherry R. Truffin

5. A Northern “Ode on Melancholy”?: The Music of Joy Division
Caroline Langhorst

6. “Little crimeworn histories”: Nick Cave and the Roots-Raves-Rehab Story of Rock Stardom
Mark A. McCutcheon

7. Postcards from Waterloo: Tom Verlaine’s Historical Constellations
Len Morzé

8. Manner, Mood, and Message: Bowie, Morrissey, and the Complex Legacy of Frankenstein
Samuel Lyndon Gladden

9. Tales of the Female Lover: The Poetics of Romantic Desire in P. J. Harvey’s To Bring You My Love and Is This Desire?
Catherine Girodet

10. Emocosms: Mind-Forg’d Realities in Emo(tional) Rock Music
Eike Träger

11. “I possess your soul, your mind, your heart, and your body”: External and Internal Gothic Hauntings in Eminem’s Relapse

Christopher Stampone

12. “The female is such exquisite hell”: The Romantic Agony of My Dying Bride
Matthew J. Heilman

13. Ashes against the Grain: Black Metal and the Grim Rebirth of Romanticism
Julian Knox

Keywords: Literature, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Contemporary Literature, Music