Romantic Englishness: Local, National and Global Selves, 1780-1850 (Palgrave Macmillan)
David Higgins
Hardcover (240 pages)
ISBN 9781137411624
Romantic Englishness investigates how narratives of localised selfhood in English Romantic writing are produced in relation to national and transnational formations. Focusing on autobiographical texts by a wide range of authors — including Thomas Bewick, John Clare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Cowper, Thomas De Quincey, William Hazlitt, Charles Lamb, and William Wordsworth — this book sheds new light on the construction of national identity in the period and argues for the persistence of specifically English forms of selfhood. It not only shows how Englishness was seen as embodied in particular rural or occasionally urban locales, but also that Romantic writers understood these locales to be inflected by imperialism and colonialism. It therefore complicates existing critical understanding of ‘Romantic ecology’ by revealing the ambiguous role of place in Romantic literature.
http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/romantic-englishness-david-higgins/?K=9781137411624
Dr David Higgins
Associate Professor in English Literature
Director of Personal Tutoring and Employability
School of English
University of Leeds
Romantic Englishness: Local, National, and Global Selves, 1780-1850
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Creative Communities, 1750-1830: an AHRC-funded research network (http://creativecommunities17501830.wordpress.com/)
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