Table of Contents

1. Romanticism and colonialism: texts, contexts, issues Tim Fulford and Peter J. Kitson; 2. Romanticism and colonialism: races, places, peoples, 1785–1800 Peter J. Kitson; 3. Romanticism and colonialism: races, places, peoples, 1800–1830 Tim Fulford; 4. Accessing India: orientalism, anti-'Indianism', and the rhetoric of Jones and Burke Michael J. Franklin; 5. 'Sunshine and Shady Groves': what Blake's 'Little Black Boy' learned from African writers Lauren Henry; 6. Blood sugar Timothy Morton; 7. 'Wisely Forgetful': Coleridge and the politics of pantisocracy James C. McKusick; 8. Darkness visible?: race and representation in Bristol abolitionist poetry, 1770–1810 Alan Richardson; 9. Fictional constructions of liberated Africans Moira Ferguson; 10. 'Wandering through Eblis': absorption and containment in Romantic exoticism Nigel Leask; 11. The Isle of Devils: the Jamaican journal of M. G. Lewis D. L. Macdonald; 12. Indian jugglers: Hazlitt, Romantic orientalism, and the difference of view John Whale; 13. 'Some samples of the finest orientalism': Byronic philhellenism and proto-Zionism at the time of the congress of Vienna Caroline Franklin; 14. 'Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee …': Byron's Venice and oriental empire Malcolm Kelsall; 15. The plague of imperial desire: Montesquieu, Gibbon, Brougham, and Mary Shelley's The Last Man Joseph W. Lew.

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The first sustained investigation of Romantic literature in relation to colonial politics.

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"An interesting read, Romanticism and Colonialism makes inroads toward filling the historical lacunae of a complex literary movement." Thomas Hothem, Albion