This companion is the first book of its kind to focus on the whole of European Romanticism.

• Describes the way in which the Romantic Movement swept across Europe in the early nineteenth century.
• Covers the national literatures of France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia and Spain.
• Addresses common themes that cross national borders, such as orientalism, Napoleon, night, nature, and the prestige of the fragment.

Arrow of Chaos is a "chaology of knowledge" insofar as it is a study of chaos as a logic at work in epistemological processes. "Romanticism" and "postmodernity" name the blurry beginnings and ends of a modernity that is forever
chasing its own tail.

From Romanticism to Critical Theory explores the philosophical roots of literary theory through the traditions of German philosophy that started with the Romantic reactions to Kant. Andrew Bowie traces the continuation of the Romantic tradition, culminating in Heidegger's approaches to art and truth, the work of Adorno and Benjamin and the Frankfurt School's Critical Theory.

Historians of French and German literature are accustomed to set off a period or a division of their subject and entitle it Romanticism. Writers of English literary history have not generally accorded it a place by itself in the arrangement of their subject-matter but have treated it cursively as a tendency present in the work of individual authors.