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 10 Emocosms: Mind-Forg’d Realities in Emo(tional) Rock Music

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

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