STEPHEN BEHRENDT George Holmes Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Nebraska, USA CHARLES BENSON Keeper of Early Printed Books at the Old Library, Trinity College Dublin, IrelandLEITH DAVIS Professor of English at Simon Fraser University, Canada STEPHEN DORNAN Research Fellow at the Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen, UK SUSAN EGENOLF Lecturer in English at Texas A&M University, USA ANNE MACCARTHY Lecturer in English at the University of Santiago de Compostella, Spain JANE MOORE Reader in English Literature at Cardiff University, UK CHRISTINA MORIN Postdoctoral Fellow at Queen's University, Belfast, UK PROINSIAS Ó DRISCEOIL received his PhD from NUI, Galway, Ireland ADRIAN PATERSON Postdoctoral Fellow at NUI Galway, Ireland JIM SHANAHAN IRCHSS Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of English, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland PATRICK VINCENT Director of the English Department at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland TIMOTHY WEBB Emeritus Professor in the Department of English, University of Bristol, UK

• Introduction; J.Kelly Part I: Scenes: The Country and the City Cín Lae Amhlaoibh: Modernization and the Irish language; P.Ó Drisceoil Jemmy O'Brien: Informer to Gothic Villain; T.Webb Part II: Influences from Abroad Spanish Literature and Irish Romanticism, 1800-1850; A.MacCarthy Robert Burns and Hibernia; S.Dornan Part III: The Irish Writer Abroad 'Transatlantic Tom': Thomas Moore in North America; J.Moore A United Irishman in the Alps: William MacNevin's A Ramble Through Swisserland (1803); P.Vincent Lady Morgan (Sydney Owenson) and the Politics of Romanticism; S.Egenolf Part IV: Irish Poetry in the Romantic Period Drawing Breath: The Origin of Moore's Irish Melodies; A.Paterson Malvina's Daughters: Irish Women Poets and the Sign of the Bard; L.Davis Part V: Fictions of the Romantic Period The Irish Booktrade in the Romantic Period; C.Benson 'Gothic' and 'National'? Challenging the Formal Distinctions of Irish Romantic Fiction; C.Morin Escaping from Barrett's Moon: Recreating the Irish Literary Landscape in the Romantic Period; J.Shanahan Afterword: Placing 'Irish' and 'Romanticism' in the Same Frame: Prospects; S.Behrendt Index

'Each essay in this collection is well written and of interest, and there is a clear focus on a discussion of Ireland and Romanticism throughout. The volume will be welcomed by scholars in the field and will make a significant contribution to academic debate on Romanticism in general.' - James H. Murphy, DePaul University, Chicago, USA