Romantic Englishness - Local, National and Global Selves, 1780-1850

Zusatztext 'An excellent and original study of the relationship of identity to space in the Romantic era' -Murray Pittock! University of Glasgow! UK Informationen zum Autor David Higgins is Associate Professor in English Literature at the University of Leeds, UK. He is the author of Romantic Genius and the Literary Magazine (2005) and Frankenstein: Character Studies (2008). He has co-edited Studying English Literature (2010), Teaching Romanticism (2010), and Contesting Creativity, a special issue of the Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (2011). Klappentext Romantic Englishness investigates how narratives of localised selfhood in English Romantic writing are produced in relation to national and transnational formations. This book focuses on autobiographical texts by authors such as John Clare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Hazlitt, Charles Lamb, and William Wordsworth. Zusammenfassung Romantic Englishness investigates how narratives of localised selfhood in English Romantic writing are produced in relation to national and transnational formations. This book focuses on autobiographical texts by authors such as John Clare! Samuel Taylor Coleridge! William Hazlitt! Charles Lamb! and William Wordsworth. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. 'These circuits, that have been made around the globe': William Cowper's Glocal Vision 2. Local and Global Geographies: Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Wordsworths 3. Labouring-Class Localism: Samuel Bamford, Thomas Bewick, William Cobbett 4. John Clare: Parish and Nation 5. William Hazlitt's Englishness 6. Charles Lamb and the Exotic 7. 'The Universal Nation': England and Empire in Thomas De Quincey's 'The English Mail-Coach' Bibliography Index

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List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. 'These circuits, that have been made around the globe': William Cowper's Glocal Vision 2. Local and Global Geographies: Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Wordsworths 3. Labouring-Class Localism: Samuel Bamford, Thomas Bewick, William Cobbett 4. John Clare: Parish and Nation 5. William Hazlitt's Englishness 6. Charles Lamb and the Exotic 7. 'The Universal Nation': England and Empire in Thomas De Quincey's 'The English Mail-Coach' Bibliography Index

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'An excellent and original study of the relationship of identity to space in the Romantic era' -Murray Pittock, University of Glasgow, UK

Product details

• Authors: D Higgins, D. Higgins, David Higgins
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.09.2014
• EAN: 9781137411624
• ISBN: 978-1-137-41162-4
• No. of pages: 236
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print; Palgrave Studies in the Enligh; Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism; Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print; Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism; Palgrave Studies in the Enligh
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Fiction & related items, Poetry, Fiction, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Poetry and Poetics, European Literature, Literature, Modern—19th century, Nineteenth-Century Literature, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Fiction Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy