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The two terms ´narrative´ and ´Romanticism´ have both undergone major re-definitions during the last few decades. It seems quite a long time since the lyric dominated the ´Period Formerly (and still) Known as Romanticism´ and since Romantic fiction was routinely discarded as having "little intrinsic merit" (Ian Watt). While the Romantic period has now become recognised as "an extraordinarily eventful and decisive phase in the development of the British novel" (Karen O´Brien), the work of recovering and re-assessing novels as well as other narrative genres of the period is still very much in progress. A similar stimulating re-orientation and expansion of the research field has taken place in the study of narrative: new genres and media have come into focus, and various new or ´postclassical´ approaches have emerged in answer to a broader concept of narrative and the increased interest in cultural and historical contextualisation.

The phrase Narratives of Romanticism is deliberately ambiguous, so as to allow for two different ways of bringing ´narrative´ and ´Romanticism´ together: narratives written during the Romantic period and narratives about the Romantic period. Discussions of both types of ´narratives of Romanticism´ can be found in this volume. While the contributors to this volume take different approaches to narratives of Romanticism - from Deleuzian deconstruction to the cognitive sciences, affect theory and ecocriticism -, they agree on and start their arguments from the hypothesis that narratives are important human means of organising experience, whose major function is sense-making.

Contributors: Sandra Heinen, Katharina Rennhak, Ian Duncan, Jeffrey Champlin, Camille Barrera, Katrin Röder, Pascal Fischer, Ralf Haekel, Rapha‰l Ingelbien, Lis M›ller, Angela Esterhammer, Tilottama Rajan, David Duff, Jan Alber, Mathelinda Nabugodi, Michael O´Neill, Claire Connolly, Seth T. Reno, Sabrina Sontheimer, Christopher Catanese, Saree Makdisi.

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Contents

Sandra Heinen and Katharina Rennhak
Narratives of Romanticism: Introduction 7

Ian Duncan
Bildung versus Roman: Germaine de Sta‰l´s Corinne 17

Jeffrey Champlin
The Future of the Broken Promise: Body Structuralism
and Earth Narrative in Frankenstein 27

Camille Barrera
The Ethics of the Storyteller´s Dis/Appearance in Moby-Dick

and The Last Man 39

Katrin Röder
Emplotting Happiness: Charlotte Smith´s Celestina and Desmond 53

Pascal Fischer
Anti-Illusionist Self-Reflexivity in the Conservative Romantic Novel:
Elizabeth Hamilton´s Memoirs of Modern Philosophers 67

Ralf Haekel
The Narrative Construction of Irish National Identity:
The Case of Sydney Owenson´s The Wild Irish Girl 79

Rapha‰l Ingelbien
The ´Headachy School´ of Fiction: Thomas Colley Grattan
and the Irish Romantic Novel 91

Lis M›ller
Ballads into Novels: Walter Scott´s Ivanhoe and B. S. Ingemann´s
The Childhood of King Erik Menved 103

Angela Esterhammer
Speculative Fiction and Counterfactual Narrative
in Scottish and Irish Romanticism 115

Tilottama Rajan
Sophia Lee´s Baroque Narratology: The Recess and the (Dis)simulation
of the Real 123

David Duff
Turns, Transports and Transformations: Lyric Events in Romantic Poetry 137

Jan Alber
Narrating the Orient: Some Brief Eastern Episodes in Romantic Poetry 149

Mathelinda Nabugodi
Dream Revisions: Percy Bysshe Shelley´s Queen Mab and Hellas 163

Michael O´Neill
Narrative and Play: Byron´s Beppo and Shelley´s The Witch of Atlas 177

Claire Connolly
Natural History and the History of Nature:
Environmental Narratives in Irish Romanticism 195

Seth T. Reno
Romantic Clouds: Narrating Climate Change 211

Sabrina Sontheimer
James Cook and the Other(s): Multiple Authorship and Narrating Alterity 227

Christopher Catanese
Survival Narratives: Georgic Extinction and the Romantic Genre-System 239

Saree Makdisi
Blake, Lamb, London 253

List of Contributors 269

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