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997891
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b752261
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Romanticism's debatable lands /\ edited by Claire Lamont and Michael Rossington.
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| Publication Statement
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;New York :: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2007.
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xi, 251 pages :: illustrations, map ;; 23 cm
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0230210872
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: 0230507859
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: 9780230210875
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: 9780230507852
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-238) and index.
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| Contents
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1. Introduction / Claire Lamont and Michael Rossington -- pt. I. Britain and Ireland -- 2. Writing on the borders / Fiona Stafford -- 3. 'Viewing most things thro' false mediums' : Iolo Mroganwg (1747-1826) and English perceptions of Wales / Mary-Ann Constantine -- 4. 'Looking back upon a highland prospect' : Scott, 'The lady of the lake, ' and the lowland/Celtic fringe / Susan Oliver -- 5. He's come undone : gender, territory, and hysteria in 'Rob Roy' / Fiona Wilson -- 6. 'The shadow line' : James Currie's 'Life of Burns' and British Romanticism / Nigel Leask -- 7. The debatable orders of English and Scottish song and ballad collections / Janet Sorensen -- 8. Debatable geographies of Romantic nostalgia : the redemptive landscape in Wordsworth and Cobbett / Alex Benchimol -- 9. John Clare and the question of place / Timothy Morton -- pt. II. Europe and beyond -- 10. The uneasy settlement : Wordsworth and emigration / Karen O'Brien -- 11. Philosophy's debatable land in Coleridge's 'Biographia literaria' / Joel Faflak -- 12. Interrogating the 'valley of wonders' : some Romantic-period debates about Chamonix-Mont Blanc / Cian Duffy -- 13. 'Those syren-haunted seas beside' : Naples in the work of Staël, Hemans, and the Shelleys / Nanora Sweet -- 14. Helen Maria Williams's 'Peru' and the Spanish legacy of the British Empire / Juan Sánchez -- 15. Borderline engagements : the Crusades in Romantic-period drama / Diego Saglia -- 16. Debating India : Southey and 'The curse of Kehama' / Carol Bolton -- 17. Debating China : Romantic fictions of the Qing Empire, 1760-1800 / Peter J. Kitson -- 18. 'Aetherial journies, submarine exploits' : the debatable worlds of natural history in the late eighteenth century / Deirdre Coleman.
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Using the theme of 'debatable lands', a term first applied to disputed parts of the Anglo-Scottish border, this book explores aspects of writing in the Romantic period. These debates are pursued in a collection of essays grouped under the headings 'Britain and Ireland' and 'Europe and Beyond'.
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Boundaries in literature.
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Boundary disputes in literature.
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Colonies in literature.
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English literature-- 18th century-- History and criticism.
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English literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
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Geography in literature.
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Imperialism in literature.
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Romanticism-- Great Britain.
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Boundaries in literature.
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Boundary disputes in literature.
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Colonies in literature.
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English literature.
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Geography in literature.
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Imperialism in literature.
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Romanticism.
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Great Britain.
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| Dewey Classification
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820.9/32
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PR468.B68R66 2007
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| Added Entry
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Lamont, Claire,1942-
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Rossington, Michael.
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