Intro -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Part I Essays in Comparative Literature and Ideas -- 1 The Paradoxes of Faith in Sir Thomas Browne and Kierkegaard -- 2 Intertextual Dialogue: Father and Daughter Novelists -- 3 Tolstoy and the "Spiritual Delights" of Schopenhauer -- 4 Rilke's Self-Portrait and the Example of Rodin -- 5 Three Modernist Poets and the Search for Cultural Rebirth -- Part II Essays in Cultural Politics -- 6 William Godwin: A Life in Literature and Politics -- 7 German Literature and English Radicalism -- 8 Generic Fusion in the Romantic Travel Novel -- 9 From Translation to Authorship: Anglophone Women Writers and Goethe.