Spain in British Romanticism

Diego Saglia is Professor of English Literature at the University of Parma, Italy.Ian Haywood is Professor of English Literature at the University of Roehampton, UK.

• 1 Introduction: Spain and British Romanticism.- 2 The Matter of Spain in Romantic Britain.- 3 Robert Southey and the Peninsular campaign.- 4 Southey, Spain, and Romantic Apostasy.- 5 Wordsworth’s Spain, 1808-1811.-6 Coleridge and Spanish Literature.- 7 Spain and Byron’s The Age of Bronze.- 8 Spain and Cosmopolitan Liberalism.- 9 The Shelleys and Spain.- 10 Spain in Gothic Fiction.- 11 British Women Writers of Peninsular Fiction.- 12 The Spanish “Revolution” in Print and Image.- 13 Alexander Dallas’s Reimagining Spain.- 14 Valentín de Llanos and Spanish Writing in Exile.

“Spain in British Romanticism are timely reminders that our current political climate, with nationalism on the rise and the perceived threat of emigrant populations exacerbated by cultural stereotypes, has a history and that the war-torn years of the Romantic period, and Romantic-era writers who grappled with cultural difference, played a significant role in that history.” (Orianne Smith, European Romantic Review, Vol. 30 (1), 2019)