Table of Contents

Introduction: inventing a European romanticism Patrick Vincent; Part I. Romantic Genealogies (1750–1790): 1. The discovery of the past Noah Heringman; 2. Discourses of nature Kate Rigby; 3. The romantic sublime Cian Duffy; 4. Cultures of sensibility Enit Karafili Steiner; 5. Gothic circulations Angela Wright; 6. The crisis of enlightenment Simon Swift; Part II. Revolution to Restoration (1790–1815): 7. Transcendental revolutions Nicholas Halmi; 8. Citizens of the world Maike Oergel; 9. Romantic loss, emigration and exile Catriona Seth; 10. Women writers' networks Gillian Dow; 11. Romantic nationalisms Joep Leerssen; 12. Shakespeare and romantic drama Frederick Burwick; 13. Classics and romantics Diego Saglia; Part III. Restoration to Revolution (1815–1850): 14. The 'restoration' of restoration Paul Hamilton; 15. Late romanticism and print culture Angela Esterhammer; 16. Global romanticisms Evan Gottlieb; 17. No longer at ease: the romantic novel in Europe Katie Trumpener; 18. Literatures of the north Lis Möller; 19. Russian empire and the territories of romanticism Luba Golburt; Acknowledgments.

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Examining Romanticism's pan-European circulation of people, ideas, and texts, this history re-analyses the period and Britain's place in it.

About the Author

Patrick Vincent is Professor of English and American literature at the University of Neuchâtel. His research interests include Romantic-period landscape aesthetics, travel writing, and cultural exchanges. He is the author of The Romantic Poetess: European Culture, Politics and Gender, 1820-1840 (2004) and Romanticism, Republicanism, and the Swiss Myth (2023).