Romantic literary geographies

Bradshaw, Penelope ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7240-9206 (2024) Romantic literary geographies. In: Alexander, Neal and Cooper, David, (eds.) The Routledge handbook of literary geographies. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 187-197.

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Abstract

This chapter focuses on the ways in which literature of the Romantic period (c. 1770–830) is affected by a growing awareness of the significance of geographical contexts, with writers increasingly associated with specific locations, and spatial contexts being drawn attention to in new ways within fiction and poetry. The chapter argues that, alongside an emphasis on the geographical spaces which writers and their characters inhabit, we also see the emergence of a related interest in the impact of external environments on the self during the Romantic period, so that geography and human identity come to be understood as closely intertwined and enmeshed. Within the chapter, a selection of writers and their handling of the Lake District in the north of England offers a case study of the complex ways in which a geographical mindset develops within this period, with a particular focus on how interrelationships between geography and identity are explored and established.

Item Type:	Book Section
Publisher:	Routledge
ISBN:	9781003097761
Departments:	Institute of Arts > Humanities
Additional Information:	Chapter 17 within book.
Depositing User:	Anna Lupton
Date Deposited:	03 Jul 2024 10:55
Last Modified:	03 Jul 2024 11:00
URI:	https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/7783

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