Romanticism, or Inter Esse

Magdalena Siwiec is a Professor of Comparative Literature at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. She focused on nineteenth-century literature and comparative literature studies, she authored numerous articles and seven monographs in the field.

• TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Inter Esse * PART I: The Romantic Crisis of the Subject: Between the Strong and the Weak Self *PART II: The Mages of Romanticism: Between Virtuosity and Priesthood *1. The Mages of Romanticism: Hugo and Mickiewicz *2. Romantic Oriental Cycles: Les Orientales and The Crimean Sonnets *3. On Two Mickiewiczian Concepts of Inspiration *4. Victor Hugo’s ‘Elegiac Moment’ *PART III: Poetesses and Enchantresses: Between Women’s Poetry and the Phantasm of Femininity *1. ‘I know that women aren’t required to write; / Yet write I do’: Marceline Desbordes-Valmore and the Anxiety of Authorship *2. Is a Romantic Poetess a Poet? On Narcyza ¯michowska’s ‘The Poet’s Happiness’ *3. Nerval’s Enchantresses: Opera in the Realm of Romantic Phantasms *4. Questions About Krasiñski’s Feminism *PART IV: In a Disenchanted World: Between Heroism and Resignation *1. Novalis’s Re-enchantment *2. Oneiric Apocalypses in Krasiñski’s Geneva Fragments *3. Marionettes, Masks and Dreams: Around Romantic Nothingness *4. The Early Romantic Novel and the Poetics of the Postmodern Novel: Bonaventura’s The Nightwatches *5. Lieu de mémoire—lieu de folie by Seweryn Goszczyñski *Bibliography *Index of Names *