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Building on postcolonial and transatlantic paradigms as well as new theoretical developments like Actor-Network-Theory, Global Romanticism: Origins, Orientations, and Engagements, 1760-1820 views the literature and culture of late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Britain and beyond through the lens of long-durational globalization.
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Introduction: British Romanticism and Early Globalization: Developing the Modern World Picture
Evan Gottlieb
Part I: Origins
Chapter One: Spawn of Ossian, Ian Duncan
Chapter Two: Burke and Hemans: Colonialism and the Claims of Family, Stuart Peterfreund
Chapter Three: Charlotte Smith's Network Story, Yoon Sun Lee
Chapter Four: Localizing and Globalizing Burns' Songs: Romanticism and the Analogies of Improvement, Steve Newman
Part II: Orientations
Chapter Five: "[N]o place on earth/ Can ever be a solitude": Lyrical Ballads, Hartleianism, and a World of Places, Michael Wiley
Chapter Six: Sailing Blind: Climacteric Orientations toward the Local and Global in Wordsworth and Byron, Samuel Baker
Chapter Seven: We have Never been National: Romance, Regionalism, and the Global in Scott's Waverley Novels, Anthony Jarrells
Chapter Eight: Frankenstein's Transport: Modernity, Mobility, and the Science of Feeling, Miranda Burgess
Part III: Engagements
Chapter Nine: John Galt's Logics of Worlds, Matthew Wickman
Chapter Ten: Romantic Recycling: The Global Economy and Secondhand Language in Equiano's Interesting Narrative and the Letters of the Sierra Leone Settlers, Debbie Lee and Kirk McAuley
Chapter Eleven: Global Flows: Romantic-era Terraforming, Robert Mitchell
Afterword: The World Viewed, Katie Trumpener
Bibliography
Index
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Evan Gottlieb is associate professor of English in the School of Writing, Literature, and Film at Oregon State University.
Zusammenfassung
Building on postcolonial and transatlantic paradigms as well as new theoretical developments like Actor-Network-Theory, Global Romanticism: Origins, Orientations, and Engagements, 1760–1820 views the literature and culture of late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Britain and beyond through the lens of long-durational globalization.
