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Romanticism's debatable lands
- Title
- Romanticism's debatable lands / edited by Claire Lamont and Michael Rossington.
- Publication
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PR468.B68 R66 2007 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xi, 251 pages : illustrations, map; 23 cm
- Summary
- Using the theme of 'debatable lands', a term first applied to disputed parts of the Anglo-Scottish border, this book explores aspects of writing in the Romantic period. These debates are pursued in a collection of essays grouped under the headings 'Britain and Ireland' and 'Europe and Beyond'.
- Subject
- 1700-1899
- Geschichte 1798-1832
- Boundary disputes in literature
- English literature > 19th century > History and criticism
- English literature > 18th century > History and criticism
- Imperialism in literature
- Colonies in literature
- Geography in literature
- Boundaries in literature
- Romanticism > Great Britain
- English literature
- Romanticism
- Great Britain
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-238) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction / Claire Lamont and Michael Rossington -- pt. I. Britain and Ireland -- 2. Writing on the borders / Fiona Stafford -- 3. 'Viewing most things thro' false mediums' : Iolo Mroganwg (1747-1826) and English perceptions of Wales / Mary-Ann Constantine -- 4. 'Looking back upon a highland prospect' : Scott, 'The lady of the lake, ' and the lowland/Celtic fringe / Susan Oliver -- 5. He's come undone : gender, territory, and hysteria in 'Rob Roy' / Fiona Wilson -- 6. 'The shadow line' : James Currie's 'Life of Burns' and British Romanticism / Nigel Leask -- 7. The debatable orders of English and Scottish song and ballad collections / Janet Sorensen -- 8. Debatable geographies of Romantic nostalgia : the redemptive landscape in Wordsworth and Cobbett / Alex Benchimol -- 9. John Clare and the question of place / Timothy Morton -- pt. II. Europe and beyond -- 10. The uneasy settlement : Wordsworth and emigration / Karen O'Brien -- 11. Philosophy's debatable land in Coleridge's 'Biographia literaria' / Joel Faflak -- 12. Interrogating the 'valley of wonders' : some Romantic-period debates about Chamonix-Mont Blanc / Cian Duffy -- 13. 'Those syren-haunted seas beside' : Naples in the work of Staël, Hemans, and the Shelleys / Nanora Sweet -- 14. Helen Maria Williams's 'Peru' and the Spanish legacy of the British Empire / Juan Sánchez -- 15. Borderline engagements : the Crusades in Romantic-period drama / Diego Saglia -- 16. Debating India : Southey and 'The curse of Kehama' / Carol Bolton -- 17. Debating China : Romantic fictions of the Qing Empire, 1760-1800 / Peter J. Kitson -- 18. 'Aetherial journies, submarine exploits' : the debatable worlds of natural history in the late eighteenth century / Deirdre Coleman.
- ISBN
- 9780230507852
- 0230507859
- 9780230210875
- 0230210872
- LCCN
- 2006048052
- OCLC
- ocm80910845
- 80910845
- SCSB-1447153
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library