Romantic Englishness: Local, National and Global Selves, 1780-1850
Author:   D. Higgins
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
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9781137411624


Pages:   225
Publication Date:   23 September 2014
Format:   Hardback
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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.

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Author:   D. Higgins
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   4.041kg
ISBN:  

9781137411624


ISBN 10:   1137411627
Pages:   225
Publication Date:   23 September 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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


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


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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).

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