Global Romanticism

Origins, Orientations, and Engagements, 1760-1820

Evan Gottlieb (Ed.)

2015
340 pages
ISBN 9781611486254
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British Romantics' theorizations and representations of the world beyond their national borders has been guided by postcolonial and, more recently, transatlantic paradigms. Global Romanticism: Origins, Orientations, and Engagements, 1760 - 1820 charts a new intellectual course by exploring the literature and culture of the Romantic era through the lens of long-durational globalization. In a series of wide-ranging but complementary chapters, this provocative collection of essays by established scholars makes the case that many British Romantics were committed to conceptualizing their world as an increasingly interconnected whole. In doing so, moreover, they were both responding to and shaping early modern versions of the transnational economic, political, sociocultural, and ecological forces known today as globalization.

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Reviews

"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.... The essays Gottleib has brought together explore this topic through a wide variety of Romantic authors.... Recommended."
- CHOICE

"As the editor of Global Romanticism ... he(Evan Gottlieb) acknowledges that while the most influential and popular authors of the Romantic period would never have used 'globalization' to describe the cluster of hopes and anxieties born of the global dynamics that were increasingly reshaping their lives, they certainly encouraged their readers to think globally and positively. Together with his talented contributors, Gottlieb favors a going global, a process (qua process) that would not, that did not, as a matter of fact, coincide (overlap at the very least) with grand imperial narratives. The emphasis is laid on flows, a concept that is malleable and fluid, rather than authoritative or imperious, let alone imperial."
- Marc Porée, European Romantic Review, February 2017

About the editor:

Evan Gottlieb is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Oregon State University, where he teaches courses on eighteenth-century and Romantic British literature, and literary and critical theory. He received his BA summa cum laude from McMaster University (Canada), and his MA and PhD from the University at Buffalo, SUNY. His articles and reviews have appeared in such journals as Studies in Romanticism, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, and The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation. He is currently at work on a book on Romanticism and globalization.

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