Romanticism, Reaction and Revolution

Bernard Beatty is Senior Fellow in the English Department at Liverpool University and Associate Fellow in the School of Divinity at St Andrews University. He has written two books and edited five collections of essays on Byron and he was editor of the Byron Journal for 20 years. He is Vice President of two Byron Societies and on the executive committee of the International Byron Society.Alicia Laspra-Rodríguez is Associate Professor of English Studies in the English Department at the University of Oviedo. She was previously a Fulbright Scholar at New York University, where she obtained a Diploma in American Studies. She has published widely on Wellington and on early nineteenth-century Anglo-Spanish relations and has recently published on the Peninsular War.

• CONTENTS: Alicia Laspra-Rodríguez: Wellington’s final mission to Spain (spring 1814) – Silvia Gregorio Sainz: The last Napoleonic redoubt in northern Spain: The British role – Juan L. Sánchez: Robert Southey and the «British Liberales» – Young-ok An: The guerrilla chief and the mountain girl: Spanish figures in Letitia Landon’s Romance and Reality – Sara Medina Calzada: Edward Blaquiere and the Spanish revolution of 1820 – Roderick Beaton: «The lightning of the nations»: Byron, the Shelleys and Spain – Agustín Coletes Blanco: Poems on the Spanish liberal revolution in the British radical press (1820–1823) – Rocío Coletes Laspra: The reception of Spanish Old Masters in the Regency era: A reassessment – Laura Martínez García: Revisiting national stereotypes in the 1815 edition of Centlivre’s «Spanish Play» The Busy Body – María Eugenia Perojo Arronte: Coleridge’s criticism of the Don Juan tradition – Bernard Beatty: Detecting Spanish fictions: Byron’s Don Juan Canto I – José Ruiz Mas: Marianne Baillie’s knowledge of Spain – Nanora Sweet: Spanish Orientalism: Felicia Hemans and her contemporaries.