The volume is organized into three sections: Language and Romantic Discourse Systems; Women Writers and Romantic Constructions of Power; and Varieties of Revisionist Discourse in Romanticism. Each section features individual essays providing critical re-readings of nine Romantic texts and four Romantic topoi.

Contents: Prologomenon to the study of romanticism's comparative discourses, Larry H. Peer and Diane Long Hoeveler. Part 1 Language and Romantic Discourse Systems: Gothic opera as romantic discourse in Britain and France: a cross-cultural dialogue, Diane Long Hoeveler and Sarah Davies Cordova; Pursuing the Plerotic sublime: romantic poetry and the failure of language, Richard A. Nanian; Half-asleep on thresholds: fragile boundaries in Coleridge's 'fears in solitude', Onita Vaz; Romantic drama and the discourse of criminality, Marjean D. Purinton. Part 2 Women Writers and Romantic Constructions of Power: Towards constructing a 'poetics of space' for the sentimental novel: a topo-analysis of Charlotte Smith's The Old Manor House, Nancy Metzger; The second soul-less sex? Mary Wollstonecraft and the 'Mahometan', Carolyn A. Weber; Ithuriel's spear and detecting the counterfeit: Edgeworth's Miltonic allusions in Belinda, Jeffrey Cass; Parting songs: Hemans, Landon, and Barret Browning rewrite Friederike Brun, Kari Lokke; The discourse of religious Bildung in Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey, Larry H. Peer. Part 3 Varieties of Revisionist Discourse in Romanticism: Readerly agency and the discourse of history in The Antiquary, Bonnie J. Gunzenhauser; Reading beyond Body, Cane and Crosier: Talleyrand as romantic discourse, Rodney Farnsworth; Byron and Manfred: epistolary journal into dramatic poem, D.L. Macdonald; The romantic artist on the couch: a Freudian approach to Wackenroder's musician Berlinger, Sonja E. Klocke. Index.