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

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.

Author: D. Higgins
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 01/01/2014
Pages: 225
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9781349489329

About the Author

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).