Rock and Romanticism: Post-Punk, Goth, and Metal as Dark Romanticisms

1. Introduction: Theorizing Rock/Historicizing Romanticism 2. Empathy for the Devil: The Origins of Mick Jagger's Devil in John Milton's London 3. "Bliss was it in that shirt to be alive": Connecting Romanticism and New Romanticism Through Dress 4. "Crying like a woman 'cause I'm mad like a man": Chrissie Hynde, Gender, and Romantic Irony 5. A Northern "Ode on Melancholy"?: The Music of Joy Division 6. "Little crimeworn histories": Nick Cave and the Roots-Raves-Rehab Story of Rock Stardom 7. Postcards from Waterloo: Tom Verlaine's Historical Constellations 8. Manner, Mood, and Message: Bowie, Morrissey, and the Complex Legacy of Frankenstein 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 ? 10. Emocosms : Mind-Forg'd Realities in Emo(tional) Rock Music 11. "I possess your soul, your mind, your heart, and your body": External and Internal Gothic Hauntings in Eminem's Relapse 12. "The female Is such exquisite hell": The Romantic Agony of My Dying Bride 13. Ashes against the Grain: Black Metal and the Grim Rebirth of Romanticism