English Romanticism and the Celtic World
English Romanticism and the Celtic World explores the way in which British Romantic writers responded to the national and cultural identities of the 'four nations' England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The essays collected here interrogate the cultural centres as well as the peripheries of Romanticism, and the interactions between these. They underline 'Celticism' as an emergent strand of cultural ethnicity during the eighteenth century, examining the constructions of Celticness and...
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This book explores British Romantic writers' responses to the national and cultural identities of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
List of contributorsAcknowledgements1Introduction: romancing the Celt12Sir William Jones, the Celtic Revival and the Oriental Renaissance203The critical response to Ossian's Romantic bequest384Blake and Gwendolen: territory, periphery and the proper name545The Welsh American dream: Iolo Morganwg, Robert Southey and the Madoc legend696Wordsworth, North Wales and the Celtic landscape857The force of 'Celtic memories' in Byron's thought1038Shelley, Ireland and Romantic Orientalism1179Byron and the 'Ariosto of the North'13010Scott and the British tourist15111Felicia Hemans, Byronic cosmopolitanism and the ancient Welsh bards16712Luttrell of Arran and the Romantic invention of Ireland18213Contemporary Northern Irish poets and Romantic poetry196Notes210Bibliography242Index257
