Romanticism’s Debatable Lands

1. Introduction
Claire Lamont, Michael Rossington

Part I. Britain and Ireland

2. Writing on the Borders
Fiona Stafford

3. ‘Viewing Most Things Thro’ False Mediums’: Iolo Morganwg (1747–1826) and English Perceptions of Wales
Mary-Ann Constantine

4. ‘Looking back upon a Highland Prospect’: Scott, The Lady of the Lake, and the Lowland/Celtic Fringe
Susan Oliver

5. He’s Come Undone: Gender, Territory, and Hysteria in Rob Roy
Fiona Wilson

6. The Shadow Line’: James Currie’s ‘Life of Burns’ and British Romanticism
Nigel Leask

7. The Debatable Borders of English and Scottish Song and Ballad Collections
Janet Sorensen

8. Debatable Geographies of Romantic Nostalgia: The Redemptive Landscape in Wordsworth and Cobbett
Alex Benchimol

9. John Clare and the Question of Place
Timothy Morton

Part II. Europe and Beyond

10. Uneasy Settlement: Wordsworth and Emigration
Karen O’Brien

11. Philosophy’s Debatable Land in Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria
Joel Faflak

12. Interrogating the ‘Valley of Wonders’: Some Romantic-Period Debates about Chamonix-Mont Blanc
Cian Duffy

13. Those Syren-Haunted Seas Beside’: Naples in the Work of Staël, Hemans, and the Shelleys
Nanora Sweet

14. Helen Maria Williams’s Peru and the Spanish Legacy of the British Empire
Juan Sánchez

15. Borderline Engagements: The Crusades in Romantic-Period Drama
Diego Saglia

16. Debating India: Southey and The Curse of Kehama
Carol Bolton

17. Debating China: Romantic Fictions of the Qing Empire, 1760–1800
Peter J. Kitson

18. ‘Aetherial Journies, Submarine Exploits’: The Debatable Worlds of Natural History in the Late Eighteenth Century
Deirdre Coleman

Keywords: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Fiction, Poetry and Poetics, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Eighteenth-Century Literature