Romantic Prose Fiction (Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages)

Romantic Prose Fiction rounds out a subseries in the Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages. The present volume is preceded by Romantic Irony (1988), Romantic Drama (1994), Romantic Poetry (2002), and Nonfictional Romantic Prose (2003). The five volumes in the Romanticism sub-series are the products of collaboration by separately recruited teams of comparatists from many nations; each volume is thus an independent work, with its own distinct Introduction, and employs approaches appropriate to its subject matter and task. However, from the start the sub-series has benefited from the interest of a core advisory and editorial group, and certain decisions taken early on set the main channels through which these volumes gradually acquired the character of an interrelated group.