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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
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Edited by Evan Gottlieb - Contributions by Samuel Baker; Miranda Burgess; Ian Duncan; Anthony Jarrells; Debbie Lee; Yoon Sun Lee; Louis Kirk McAuley; Robert Mitchell; Steve Newman; Stuart Peterfreund; Katie Trumpener; Matthew Wickman and Michael Wiley
Summary
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.
