Romantic Pasts

Porscha Fermanis is Professor of Romantic Literature at University College Dublin. Her most recent book is Worlding the South: Nineteenth-Century Literary Culture and the Southern Settler Colonies (ed. with Sarah Comyn, Manchester University Press, 2021). She is currently the principal investigator of the European Research Council-funded project ‘SouthHem’ and is completing a monograph entitled Southern Settler Fiction and the Transcolonial Imaginary, 1820-1890.

• AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Romantic Histories of Feeling1. Historical Sentiment and Experience: Burke and Wollstonecraft2. Historical Subjects and Ethical Character: Godwin and Carlyle3. Historical Ethnogenesis and National Feeling: Scott, Moore, and Southey4. Historical Style and the Man of Letters: Macaulay and Carlyle5. Historical Reviewing: Specialisation and Periodical CultureEpilogue: A Romantic Return?BibliographyIndex

Combining a sophisticated appreciation of the historiographic with nuanced literary analysis, Romantic Pasts is sensitive, insightful and wide-ranging. In its examination of writers from Burke and Wollstonecraft to Godwin, Scott, Macaulay and Carlyle, this book gives an important new perspective on the complex role of feeling in configuring the past.