Wales and the Romantic Imagination (Paperback, Illustrated Ed)

Wales and the Romantic Imagination is the first study devoted exclusively to the appropriation of Wales, its landscape, history, and culture, by writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The collection is diverse yet integrated, and the essays engage meaningfully in dialogue with one another. The volume represents a key intervention in on-going debates about the relation between Romanticism and national identity, antiquarianism, politics, print culture and gender. The essays in this collection fill an important gap in our current understanding of how Romanticism constituted itself out of diverse cultural experiences. The book is likely to prove indispensable for undergraduate and postgraduate students of Romanticism: