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Table of contents
Tradition and Background
Romantic Irony and Cervantes15 Sterne: Arabesques and Fictionality33 National Manifestations
The Theory of Irony in German Romanticism43 The Practice of Irony in Early German Romanticism82 Modes of Romantic Irony in Nineteenth-Century France97 The Ironic Recit in Portuguese Romanticism121 Imagination and Irony in English Romantic Poetry131 Thorbecke and the Resistance to Irony in the Netherlands156 Romantic Irony in Scandinavinan Literature178 Irony and World-Creation in the Work of Mihai Eminescu188 Romantic Irony in Nineteenth-Century Hungarian Literature202 Romantic Irony in Polish Literature and Criticism225 Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol: Ironic Modes in Russian Romanticism241 Romantic Irony and the Southern Slavs250 The Development of Romantic Irony in the United States267 Syntheses
Romantic Irony and Narrative Stance293 Musical Forms of Romantic Irony310 Romantic Irony and the Grotesque322 Romantic Irony in Modern Anti-Theater343 Coda: Ironies, Domestic and Cosmopolitan358
Bibliography383
Index385
