European Literatures in Britain, 1815-1832: Romantic Translations

Sheds new light on the presence and impact of Continental European literary traditions in post-Napoleonic Britain.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction: Continental literatures in Romantic-period Britain; 1. Periodicals and the construction of European literatures; 2. Interpreting nations: 1820s anthologies of foreign poetry; 3. Italian studies and cultural translation at Holland House; 4. Foreign presences on the national stage; 5. Continental voices and post-Napoleonic politics in Southey, Byron and Hemans; Coda: the European vistas of historical fiction; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.

About the author

Diego Saglia is Professor of English Literature at the Università degli Studi, Parma. He is the author of Poetic Castles in Spain: British Romanticism and Figurations of Iberia (2000) and co-editor of British Romanticism and Italian Literature: Translating, Reviewing, Rewriting (with Laura Bandiera, 2005) and Byron and Italy (with Alan Rawes, 2017), as well as numerous critical essays in international journals.

Summary

This book offers an original approach to the presence of Continental European literatures in post-Napoleonic Britain. In doing so it reconstructs a literary and cultural environment in which patriotic discourse - the expression of a triumphant international power - combined with intensely transformative engagements with foreign literary traditions.

Product details

• Authors: Diego Saglia, Diego (Universit... degli Studi Saglia, Saglia Diego
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781108426411
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42641-1
• No. of pages: 284
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism; Cambridge Studies in Romantici; Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, History of Ideas, Europe, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, HISTORY / Social History, military history, Social & cultural history, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Reference, c 1800 to c 1900, Literature: history & criticism, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: general, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Literary theory, Literary reference works, Battles & campaigns, Literature: history and criticism, Specific wars and campaigns, Early 19th century c 1800 to c 1850, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, Early modern warfare (including gunpowder warfare), National liberation and independence, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General, HISTORY / Military / Early Modern Warfare (1500-1800)