Romanticism and the City

1. The Infernal and Celestial City of Romanticism
Larry H. Peer

Part I. Theories of the City

2. Nerve Theory, Sensibility, and Romantic Metrosexuals
Michelle Faubert

3. Wordsworth’s Double-Take
William Galperin

4. John Galt, Happy Colonialist: The Case of “The Apostate; or, Atlantis Destroyed”
Jeffrey Cass

5. The Gothic Chapbook and the Urban Reader
Diane Long Hoeveler

6. Romantic Science and the City
Marilyn Gaull

Part II. Continental Cities

7. Phenomenal Beauty: Rousseau in Venice
Nancy Yousef

8. E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Marketplace Vision of Berlin
Alexander Schlutz

9. Renzo in Milan
Ernesto Livorni

10. Rome Above Rome: Nikolai Gogol’s Romantic Vision of the Eternal City
Tatiana V. Barnett

Part III. London

11. Wordsworth’s Invigorating Hell: London in Book 7 of the Prelude (1805)
Eugene Stelzig

12. Blake’s Golgonoosa: London and/as the Eternal City of Art
Mark Lussier

13. London’s Immortal Druggists: Pharmaceutical Science and Business in Romanticism
Thomas H. Schmid

14. Wordsworth’s “Illustrated Books and Newspapers” and Media of the City
Peter J. Manning

15. Babylon and Jerusalem on the Old Kent Road
Tim Fulford

Avainsanat: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Poetry and Poetics