Romantic Localities: Europe Writes Place

Romantic Localities explores the ways in which Romantic-period writers of varying nationalities responded to languages, landscapes – both geographical and metaphorical – and literatures. This focus on how writers explore region and place ties in with current scholarly interest in ‘transnational’ perspectives.The essays featured in this collection are by scholars from around the world and discuss poetry, fiction, travel narratives and historical and scientific texts. The contributors examine versions of ‘home’ and ‘abroad’, as well as issues of ‘now’ and ‘the past’. The concentration on locality is underpinned by explorations of mobility, mutability, sincerity and the real.

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Europe Writes Place

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

CONTENTS
pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements
pp ix-ix

Contributors
pp x-xiii

List of Figures
pp xiv-xiv

Introduction
pp 1-14

1 - ‘How Bursts the Landscape on my Sight!’: Pedestrian Excursions into the Romantic Landscape
pp 15-24

2 - At the Intersection of Artifice and Reality
pp 25-38

3 - Sublime Landscapes and Ancient Traditions: Eighteenth-Century Literary Tourism in Scotland
pp 39-50

4 - ‘Plumb-Pudding Stone’ and the Romantic Sublime: The Landscape and Geology of the Trossachs in The Statistical Account of Scotland (1791–9)
pp 51-66

5 - Readers of Romantic Locality: Tourists, Loch Katrine and The Lady of the Lake
pp 67-80

6 - Paradox Inn: Home and Passing Through at Grasmere
pp 81-98

7 - ‘O all pervading Album!’: Place and Displacement in Romantic Albums and Album Poetry
pp 99-116

8 - Into the Woods: Robin Hood and Sherwood Forest in the Romantic Imagination
pp 117-130

9 - Inspiration, Toleration and Relocation in Ann Radcliffe's A Journey Made in the Summer of 1794, Through Holland and the Western Frontier of Germany (1795)
pp 131-144

10 - Henry Crabb Robinson's Initiation into the ‘Mysteries of the New School’: A Romantic Journey
pp 145-156

11 - Italy as a Romantic Location in the Poetry of the Original English Della Cruscans
pp 157-168

12 - The Location of Vacancy: Pompeii and the Panorama
pp 169-184

13 - Italy Visited and Revisited: Wordsworth's ‘Magnificent Debt’
pp 185-196

14 - Hollow Skies, Hupaithric Temples and Pythagoreans: Shelley's Dim Crotonian Truths
pp 197-208

15 - ‘An Imaginary Line Drawn through Waste and Wilderness’: Scott's The Talisman
pp 209-220

16 - Exploded Convictions, Perished Certainties: The Transformational Experience of the South Seas in Georg Forster's A Voyage Round the World
pp 221-236

Notes
pp 237-280

Works Cited
pp 281-300

Index
pp 301-309

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