Global Romanticism: Origins, Orientations, and Engagements, 1760–1820 (Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850)
Brand: Bucknell University Press
Categories: Books, Literature & Fiction, History & Criticism



Dimensions: 5.93 x 0.93 x 9.02 inches
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1611486270
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Print length: 342 pages
Publication date: June 2, 2016
ISBN-13: 978-1611486278
Part of series: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850
subtitle: Paperback – June 2, 2016
author: Visit Amazon's Evan Gottlieb Page search results Evan Gottlieb Samuel Baker Miranda Burgess Ian Duncan Anthony Jarrells Debbie Lee Yoon Sun Lee Louis Kirk McAuley Robert Mitchell Steve Newman Stuart Peterfreund Katie Trumpener Matthew Wickman Michael Wiley
review: Editorial Reviews Review Part of the 'Transits: Literature, Thought, and Culture, 1650–1850' series, this collection builds on the foundation of post-colonialism to explore how Romantic writers viewed themselves in relation to other peoples, places, and world literatures. As a time when the British Empire was expanding and technological and scientific innovations were making it possible to have easier contact with the rest of the world, this period can be seen as the beginning of 'globalization.' Written by an impressive group of scholars, the essays Gottleib has brought together explore this topic through a wide variety of Romantic authors, from the well-known to the obscure. The most interesting chapters examine the connection between Robert Burns’s writings and the independence movement in India, the genre of Equiano’s Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789) and its connection with the ill-fated African English colony in Sierra Leone, and the unusual climate reformation ideas of Erasmus Darwin and Percy Shelley. Both wanted to reform the world’s climate by loosening the ice caps, but Shelley had the even more extreme idea of straightening Earth’s axis in the hope that all the world would enjoy a temperate climate. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. ― Choice The excellent essays in the collection tend to explore the interface between nascent imperial formations and emergent understandings of how subjects and populations are linked around the globe ― SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 About the Author Evan Gottlieb is associate professor of English in the School of Writing, Literature, and Film at Oregon State University.