Contents

Sandra Heinen and Katharina Rennhak Narratives of Romanticism: Introduction 7

Ian Duncan Bildung versus Roman: Germaine de Staël'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

Raphaël Ingelbien The 'Headachy School' of Fiction: Thomas Colley Grattan and the Irish Romantic Novel 91

Lis Møller 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