This book tracks the rise of modern cultural regionalism across the turn of the nineteenth century. Regional Romanticism illuminates a neglected aspect of anglophone literary history, acknowledging regions and regionalism as a primary frame of reference in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century culture.
Gerard Lee McKeever is Lecturer in Modern Scottish Literature at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He is the author of Dialectics of Improvement: Scottish Romanticism, 1786–1831 (2020), the winner of the BARS First Book Prize 2021.
Chapter 1. Introduction: Regional Romanticism.- Chapter 2. Travel Writing’s Debatable Land.- Chapter 3. Of Poets, Mermaids and Brownies.- Chapter 4. Regional Periodicals.- Chapter 5. Transatlantic Romance and the Curse of Home.- Chapter 6. Subversive Antiquarianism.- Chapter 7. Furth of the Solway.