British Romanticism in European Perspective: Into the Eurozone

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction: Into the Eurozone: European Dimensions of British Romanticism, Then and Now....Pages 1-25
The Genealogy of the Scientific Sublime: Glaciers, Mountains and the Alternating Modes of Representation....Pages 26-44
‘Et in Arcadia Ego’: Philosophical Aesthetics and the Origins of European Romanticism in Shaftesbury’s Characteristics and Rousseau’s Reveries....Pages 45-68
Cross-channel Discourses of Sensibility: Madeleine de Scudéry’s Clélie and Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote....Pages 69-88
‘Amphibious Grown’: Hester Thrale, Della Crusca and the Italian Origins of British Romanticism....Pages 89-112
L’Exception Anglaise: Joseph Priestley Abroad and Romantic Poetics....Pages 113-132
‘Mistaken for Natives of the Soil’: Translation and Erasmus Darwin’s Loves of the Plants....Pages 133-154
Family, Marriage and the State in Romanticism’s Other Genres....Pages 155-173
‘What means this wild, this allegorick Mask?’: British Anticipations of Romantic Opera c. 1740....Pages 174-192
Blake and the European (Pre) History of Melodrama: Beyond the Borders of Time and Stage....Pages 193-209
From the English to the French Revolution: The Body, the World and Experience in Locke’s Essay, Bentley’s ‘A Prospect of Vapourland’ and Blake’s Songs....Pages 210-229
‘Some roads unfold before us / Without a beaten track’: Unearthing Bosnia’s Romantic Spirit through the Hasanaginica and Mak Dizdar’s Stone Sleeper....Pages 230-247
Back Matter....Pages 248-286