Contents Christoph Bode Preface 7 Christoph Bode Romanticism as a Form of Discontent 13 Nicholas Halmi Past and Future, Discontent and Unease 87 Timothy Michael Keats and Uneasiness 101 Katharina Pink Romantic Discontent and its Discontents 121 Ralf Haekel Discontent and Dialectics: Percy Bysshe Shelley's Laon and Cythna and The Triumph of Life 137 Katharina Rennhak Mary Shelley's Fictions of Cultural Discontent: Attachments of Cruel Optimism in Frankenstein, Matilda and Lodore 157 Christoph Reinfandt The Persistence of Romantic Discontent: From Wordsworth's The Prelude to Knausgaard's My Struggle 181 Contributors 211 Skryť popis