World-Building and the Early Modern Imagination

This book investigates how Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and their circle understood the idea of Europe. What geographical, cultural, and ideological concepts did they associate with the term? What does this tell us about politics and identity in early nineteenth-century Britain? In addressing these questions, Paul Stock challenges prevailing nationalist interpretations of Romanticism, but without falling prey to imprecise alternative notions of cosmopolitanism or "world citizenship." Instead, his book accounts for both the transnational and the local in Romantic writing, reassessing the period in terms of more complex, multi-layered identity politics.

Author: A. Kavey
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 11/17/2010
Pages: 282
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.70w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780230105881

About the Author

ALLISON B. KAVEY is an Associate Professor in the History Department at City University of New York, John Jay College, USA.