Romanticism's Debatable Lands

ALEX BENCHIMOL Teaches in the Department of English Literature, Glasgow University, UKCAROL BOLTON Independent scholarDEIRDRE COLEMAN Lecturer in the School of Letters, Art and Media, University of Sydney, AustraliaMARY-ANN CONSTANTINE Research Fellow, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, UKCIAN DUFFY Lecturer in English Literature, St Mary's College, Strawberry Hill, UKJOEL FAFLAK Associate Professor in the Department of English, University of Western Ontario, USAPETER KITSON Professor of English, University of Dundee, UKKAREN O'BRIEN Professor of English Literature, University of Warwick, UKSUSAN OLIVER Lecturer in English, Canterbury Christ Church University, UKTIMOTHY MORTON Professor of Literature and the Environment, University of California, Davis, USANIGEL LEASK Regius Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Glasgow, UKDIEGO SAGLIA Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Parma, ItalyJUAN SÁNCHEZ Doctoral Student in the Department of English, University of Notre Dame, USAJANET SORENSON Teaches in the English Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, USAFIONA STAFFORD Reader in English, University of Oxford, UKNANORA SWEET Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies, University of Missouri-St Louis, USAFIONA WILSON Visiting Assistant Professor in English Literature, Fordham University, USA

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; C.Lamont & M.Rossington PART I: BRITAIN AND IRELAND Writing on the Borders; F.Stafford 'Viewing Most Things Thro' False Mediums': Iolo Morganwyg (1747-1826), Romantic Forgery and English Perceptions of Wales; M.A.Constantine 'Looking back upon a Highland Prospect': Scott, The Lady of the Lake and the Lowland/Celtic Fringe; S.Oliver He's Come Undone: Gender, Territory, and Hysteria in Rob Roy ; F.Wilson 'The Shadow Line': James Currie's 'Life of Burns' and British Romanticism; N.Leask The Debatable Borders of English and Scottish Song and Ballad Collections; J.Sorenson Debatable Geographies of Romantic Nostalgia: The Redemptive Landscape in Wordsworth and Cobbett; A.Benchimol John Clare and the Question of Place; T.Morton PART II: EUROPE AND BEYOND Uneasy Settlement: Wordsworth and Emigration; K.O'Brien Philosophy's Debatable Land in Coleridge's Biographia Literaria ; J.Faflak Interrogating the 'Valley of Wonders': Some Romantic-Period Debates about Chamonix-Mont Blanc; C.Duffy 'Those Syren-Haunted Seas Beside': Naples in the Work of Staël, Hemans and the Shelleys; N.Sweet Helen Maria Williams' Peru and the Spanish Legacy of the British Empire; J.Sánchez Borderline Engagements: The Crusades in Romantic-Period Drama; D.Saglia Debating India: Southey and The Curse of Kehama ; C.Bolton Debating China: Romantic Fictions of the Qing Empire, 1760-1800; P.J.Kitson 'Aetherial Journies, Submarine Exploits': The Debatable Worlds of Natural History in the Late Eighteenth Century; D.Coleman Select Bibliography Index

'In Romantic studies, debate is of the essence. The trenchant essays in this new collection provide successive reports on the state of play, as some of the most fascinating and central issues are discussed by leading scholars of the present day.' - John Beer, Emeritus Professor of English Literature, University of Cambridge, UK 'This is a richly various collection of essays.' - Richard Cronin, Modern Language Review 'Romantacism's Debatable Lands achieves a convincing consistency of theme. [...] Altogether, this collection contains many thought-provoking essays.' - Gavin Budge, BARS Bulletin & Review