This companion is the first book of its kind to focus on the whole of European Romanticism. This work: 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; includes cross-disciplinary essays on literature and music, literature and painting, and the general system of Romantic arts; and, features 35 essays in all, from leading scholars in America, Australia, Britain, France, Italy, and Switzerland.