Table Of Contents:
Series Editor's Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
Preface xiii
Introduction

A Definition of Romanticism, Light and Dark 1(8)

The Resurgence of Romanticism Since the Fifties 9(22)
Part I Contemporary Novelists on Romantics and Romanticism

A World Too Much with Us (1975) 31(10)

Saul Bellow

Is It O.K. to Be a Luddite? (1984) 41(10)

Thomas Pynchon

Romancing the Shadow (1992) 51(20)

Toni Morrison
Part II Criticism on Contemporary Novelists

The Romantic Style of Salinger's ``Seymour: An Introduction'' (1963) 71(8)

John O. Lyons

The New Romance [On Thomas Pynchon] (1972) 79(12)

Arthur Mizener

Lancelot: Percy's Romance (1983) 91(14)

Mark Johnson

John Gardner's ``The King's Indian'' and the Romantic Tradition (1984) 105(8)

Gregory Morris

Bellow and English Romanticism (1984) 113(14)

Allan Chavkin

Hawthorne and O'Connor: A Literary Kinship (1989) 127(10)

Ronald Emerick

The Other Ghost in Beloved: The Specter of The Scarlet Letter (1991) 137(22)

Jan Stryz

Updike's Scarlet Letter Trilogy: Recasting an American Myth (1992) 159(18)

James A. Schiff

Ellison's Invisible Man: Emersonianism Revised (1992) 177(26)

Kun Jong Lee

Nabokov and Poe (1995) 203(16)

Dale E. Peterson
Part III Overviews

All the New Vibrations: Romanticism in 20th-Century America (1969) 219(14)

Ronald L. Davis

The Corpse of the Dragon: Notes on Postromantic Fiction (1975) 233(28)

Frank McConnell

Hawthorne and the Sixties: Careening on the Utmost Verge (1985) 261(16)

Samuel Coale

Realistic and Romantic Tendencies (1996) 277(52)

Eberhard Alsen
Part IV Bibliography

I. Contemporary Novelists on Romantics and Romanticism 305(1)

II. Criticism on Contemporary Novelists 306(20)

III. Overviews 326(3)
Index 329