British Romanticism in European Perspective

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction: Into the Eurozone: European Dimensions of British Romanticism, Then and Now

   • Steve Clark, Tristanne Connolly

   Pages 1-25

3. The Genealogy of the Scientific Sublime: Glaciers, Mountains and the Alternating Modes of Representation

   • Kaz Oishi

   Pages 26-44

4. ‘Et in Arcadia Ego’: Philosophical Aesthetics and the Origins of European Romanticism in Shaftesbury’s Characteristics and Rousseau’s Reveries

   • Evy Varsamopoulou

   Pages 45-68

5. Cross-channel Discourses of Sensibility: Madeleine de Scudéry’s Clélie and Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote

   • Kimiyo Ogawa

   Pages 69-88

6. ‘Amphibious Grown’: Hester Thrale, Della Crusca and the Italian Origins of British Romanticism

   • Steve Clark

   Pages 89-112

7. L’Exception Anglaise: Joseph Priestley Abroad and Romantic Poetics

   • Stephen Bygrave

   Pages 113-132

8. ‘Mistaken for Natives of the Soil’: Translation and Erasmus Darwin’s Loves of the Plants

   • Tristanne Connolly

   Pages 133-154

9. Family, Marriage and the State in Romanticism’s Other Genres

   • David Shakespeare

   Pages 155-173

10. ‘What means this wild, this allegorick Mask?’: British Anticipations of Romantic Opera c. 1740

    • David Chandler

    Pages 174-192

11. Blake and the European (Pre) History of Melodrama: Beyond the Borders of Time and Stage

    • Diane Piccitto

    Pages 193-209

12. 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

    • Peter Otto

    Pages 210-229

13. ‘Some roads unfold before us / Without a beaten track’: Unearthing Bosnia’s Romantic Spirit through the Hasanaginica and Mak Dizdar’s Stone Sleeper

    • Maja Pašović

    Pages 230-247

14. Back Matter

    Pages 248-286

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What, and when, is British Romanticism, if seen not in island isolation but cosmopolitan integration with European Romantic literature, history and culture? The essays here range from poetry and the novel to science writing, philosophy, visual art, opera and melodrama; from France and Germany to Italy and Bosnia.

• British Romanticism
• European Romanticism
• nationalism
• internationalism
• Romantic periodization
• aesthetics
• culture
• drama
• English literature
• Europe
• Germany
• history of literature
• Italy
• novel
• poetry
• Romanticism
• time
• William Blake
• William Shakespeare

• University of Tokyo, Japan

  Steve Clark

• St Jerome’s University, Canada

  Tristanne Connolly

Stephen Bygrave, University of Southampton, UK David Chandler, Doshisha University, Japan Steve Clark, University of Tokyo, Japan Tristanne Connolly, St Jerome's University, Canada Kimiyo Ogawa, Sophia University, Japan Kaz Oishi, University of Tokyo, Japan Peter Otto, University of Melbourne, Australia Maja Pa ovi?, independent scholar, Bosnia-Herzegovina Diane Piccitto, Plymouth University, UK David Shakespeare, University of Waterloo, Canada Evy Varsamopoulou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

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