Radical Romantics

Talissa Ford is an Assistant Professor of English at Temple University. She has published scholarly articles in Studies in Romanticism and in Romantic Circle Reviews.

• Introduction: Romanticism Off the Map; 1. It is Not Amiss to Speak of His Beard; 2. A Pirate or Anything; 3. Coming Up From the Sea; 4. Jerusalem is Scattered Abroad; 5. From Here to Timbuktu; Conclusion: Land Pirates and Republican Ragamuffins.

Radical Romantics offers an innovative approach to areas at the forefront of critical enquiry into Romantic-era writing. Its bold new stroke is to compare and contrast very different kinds of writing, usually viewed as unrelated, because they all disturb, disconfirm, and undermine the languages of colonialism. One does not expect to find pirate narratives, visionary poems and prophecies in the same study, but Ford’s book succeeds at throwing each into a new light by the unlikely juxtaposition.