Emily Sun is Tow Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the author of Succeeding King Lear: Literature, Exposure, and the Possibility of Politics (2010), On the Horizon of World Literature: Forms of Modernity in Romantic England and Republican China (2021), and essays on Romanticism and comparative literature, with emphasis on comparative literary historiography and politics and aesthetics. Orrin N. C. Wang teaches English and Comparative Literature at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is author and editor of several books and numerous articles on British Romanticism and literary theory. He has won the Jean-Pierre Barricelli Prize and also received the Keats Shelley Association of America's Distinguished Scholar Award.

• List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; Chronology; Introduction Emily Sun and Orrin N. C. Wang; Part I. Language: 1. Philology Christoph König; 2. Translation Paresh Chandra; 3. Criticism and methodology David L. Clark; Part II. History and Temporalities: 4. Periodicity and periodization Eun Kyung Min; 5. Modernity, modernization, westernization Saree Makdisi; 6. Romanticism and the contemporary Forest Pyle; Part III. Politics: 7. Revolution and emancipation Carlos Abreu Mendoza; 8. Empire and empires Arif Camoglu; 9. Slavery and abolition Bakary Diaby; 10. Gender and sexuality Humberto Garcia; Part IV. Culture and Aesthetics: 11. Aesthetics and aesthetic ideology Deborah Elise White; 12. Ecological imaginations Alexis Harley; 13. Genres local and global Katarzyna Bartoszynska; 14. Media, techné, mediations Olivia Loksing Moy; Further reading; Index.

Emily Sun is Tow Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the author of Succeeding King Lear: Literature, Exposure, and the Possibility of Politics (2010), On the Horizon of World Literature: Forms of Modernity in Romantic England and Republican China (2021), and essays on Romanticism and comparative literature, with emphasis on comparative literary historiography and politics and aesthetics. Orrin N. C. Wang teaches English and Comparative Literature at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is author and editor of several books and numerous articles on British Romanticism and literary theory. He has won the Jean-Pierre Barricelli Prize and also received the Keats Shelley Association of America's Distinguished Scholar Award.

• List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; Chronology; Introduction Emily Sun and Orrin N. C. Wang; Part I. Language: 1. Philology Christoph König; 2. Translation Paresh Chandra; 3. Criticism and methodology David L. Clark; Part II. History and Temporalities: 4. Periodicity and periodization Eun Kyung Min; 5. Modernity, modernization, westernization Saree Makdisi; 6. Romanticism and the contemporary Forest Pyle; Part III. Politics: 7. Revolution and emancipation Carlos Abreu Mendoza; 8. Empire and empires Arif Camoglu; 9. Slavery and abolition Bakary Diaby; 10. Gender and sexuality Humberto Garcia; Part IV. Culture and Aesthetics: 11. Aesthetics and aesthetic ideology Deborah Elise White; 12. Ecological imaginations Alexis Harley; 13. Genres local and global Katarzyna Bartoszynska; 14. Media, techné, mediations Olivia Loksing Moy; Further reading; Index.

Emily Sun is Tow Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the author of Succeeding King Lear: Literature, Exposure, and the Possibility of Politics (2010), On the Horizon of World Literature: Forms of Modernity in Romantic England and Republican China (2021), and essays on Romanticism and comparative literature, with emphasis on comparative literary historiography and politics and aesthetics. Orrin N. C. Wang teaches English and Comparative Literature at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is author and editor of several books and numerous articles on British Romanticism and literary theory. He has won the Jean-Pierre Barricelli Prize and also received the Keats Shelley Association of America's Distinguished Scholar Award.

• List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; Chronology; Introduction Emily Sun and Orrin N. C. Wang; Part I. Language: 1. Philology Christoph König; 2. Translation Paresh Chandra; 3. Criticism and methodology David L. Clark; Part II. History and Temporalities: 4. Periodicity and periodization Eun Kyung Min; 5. Modernity, modernization, westernization Saree Makdisi; 6. Romanticism and the contemporary Forest Pyle; Part III. Politics: 7. Revolution and emancipation Carlos Abreu Mendoza; 8. Empire and empires Arif Camoglu; 9. Slavery and abolition Bakary Diaby; 10. Gender and sexuality Humberto Garcia; Part IV. Culture and Aesthetics: 11. Aesthetics and aesthetic ideology Deborah Elise White; 12. Ecological imaginations Alexis Harley; 13. Genres local and global Katarzyna Bartoszynska; 14. Media, techné, mediations Olivia Loksing Moy; Further reading; Index.