Romantic Englishness : local, national and global selves, 1780-1850

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Romantic Englishness : local, national and global selves, 1780-1850

David Higgins

(Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

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Bibliography: p. 205-218

Includes index

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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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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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