Educated at Cornell University and at the University of Toronto, Nicholas Halmi currently teaches English and comparative literature at the University of Washington in Seattle. He has lectured on Enlightenment and Romantic topics, particularly the concept of the symbol, in the US, Canada, UK, and Germany. He has been Advisory editor of Romanticism on the Net since 1996, review editor since 2004. He is an editorial board member of Modern Language Quarterly and was elected to the Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions and to the Advisory Board of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism in 2005.

The Genealogy of the Romantic Symbol is a really fine book, and one that anyone interested in Romantic literary theory will find absorbing. Halmi draws on an impressively wide range of authorities; he gathers a complex argument into pages of pleasurable lucidity; and he pursues his quarry with grace.

• Acknowledgements ; Abbreviations ; 1. Defining the Romantic Symbol ; 2. Burdens of Enlightenment ; 3. Uses of Philosophy ; 4. Uses of Theology ; 5. Uses of Mythology ; Appendix: The So-called 'Oldest Programme for a System of German Idealism' ; Bibliography

Educated at Cornell University and at the University of Toronto, Nicholas Halmi currently teaches English and comparative literature at the University of Washington in Seattle. He has lectured on Enlightenment and Romantic topics, particularly the concept of the symbol, in the US, Canada, UK, and Germany. He has been Advisory editor of Romanticism on the Net since 1996, review editor since 2004. He is an editorial board member of Modern Language Quarterly and was elected to the Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions and to the Advisory Board of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism in 2005.

The Genealogy of the Romantic Symbol is a really fine book, and one that anyone interested in Romantic literary theory will find absorbing. Halmi draws on an impressively wide range of authorities; he gathers a complex argument into pages of pleasurable lucidity; and he pursues his quarry with grace.

• Acknowledgements ; Abbreviations ; 1. Defining the Romantic Symbol ; 2. Burdens of Enlightenment ; 3. Uses of Philosophy ; 4. Uses of Theology ; 5. Uses of Mythology ; Appendix: The So-called 'Oldest Programme for a System of German Idealism' ; Bibliography

Educated at Cornell University and at the University of Toronto, Nicholas Halmi currently teaches English and comparative literature at the University of Washington in Seattle. He has lectured on Enlightenment and Romantic topics, particularly the concept of the symbol, in the US, Canada, UK, and Germany. He has been Advisory editor of Romanticism on the Net since 1996, review editor since 2004. He is an editorial board member of Modern Language Quarterly and was elected to the Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions and to the Advisory Board of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism in 2005.

The Genealogy of the Romantic Symbol is a really fine book, and one that anyone interested in Romantic literary theory will find absorbing. Halmi draws on an impressively wide range of authorities; he gathers a complex argument into pages of pleasurable lucidity; and he pursues his quarry with grace.

• Acknowledgements ; Abbreviations ; 1. Defining the Romantic Symbol ; 2. Burdens of Enlightenment ; 3. Uses of Philosophy ; 4. Uses of Theology ; 5. Uses of Mythology ; Appendix: The So-called 'Oldest Programme for a System of German Idealism' ; Bibliography