Chapter 1 Introduction: Theorizing Rock/Historicizing Romanticism

Chapter 2 Empathy for the Devil: The Origins of Mick Jagger’s Devil in John Milton’s London

Chapter 3 “Bliss was it in that shirt to be alive”: Connecting Romanticism and New Romanticism through Dress

Chapter 4 “Crying like a woman ‘cause I’m mad like a man”: Chrissie Hynde, Gender, and Romantic Irony

Chapter 5 A Northern “Ode on Melancholy”?: The Music of Joy Division

Chapter 6 “Little crimeworn histories”: Nick Cave and the Roots-Raves-Rehab Story of Rock Stardom

Chapter 7 Postcards from Waterloo: Tom Verlaine’s Historical Constellations

Chapter 8 Manner, Mood, and Message: Bowie, Morrissey, and the Complex Legacy of Frankenstein

Chapter 9 Tales of the Female Lover: The Poetics of Romantic Desire in P. J. Harvey’s To Bring You My Love and Is This Desire?

Chapter 11 “I possess your soul, your mind, your heart, and your body”: External and Internal Gothic Hauntings in Eminem’s Relapse

Chapter 12 “The female is such exquisite hell”: The Romantic Agony of My Dying Bride

Chapter 13 Ashes against the Grain: Black Metal and the Grim Rebirth of Romanticism