Rock and Romanticism

James Rovira is Chair and Associate Professor of English at Mississippi College, USA. He is the author of Blake and Kierkegaard: Creation and Anxiety (2010).

• 1. Introduction: Theorizing Rock/Historicizing Romanticism.- 2. Empathy for the Devil: The Origins of Mick Jagger's Devil in John Milton's London.- 3. "Bliss was it in that shirt to be alive": Connecting Romanticism and New Romanticism Through Dress.- 4. "Crying like a woman 'cause I'm mad like a man": Chrissie Hynde, Gender, and Romantic Irony.- 5. A Northern "Ode on Melancholy"?: The Music of Joy Division.- 6. "Little crimeworn histories": Nick Cave and the Roots-Raves-Rehab Story of Rock Stardom.- 7. Postcards from Waterloo: Tom Verlaine's Historical Constellations.- 8. Manner, Mood, and Message: Bowie, Morrissey, and the Complex Legacy of Frankenstein.- 9. Tales of the Female Lover: The Poetics of Romantic Desire in P. J. Harvey’s To Bring You My Love and Is This Desire?.- 10. Emocosms: Mind-Forg'd Realities in Emo(tional) Rock Music.- 11. "I possess your soul, your mind, your heart, and your body": External and Internal Gothic Hauntings in Eminem's Relapse.- 12. "The female Is such exquisite hell": The Romantic Agony of My Dying Bride.- 13. Ashes against the Grain: Black Metal and the Grim Rebirth of Romanticism.