British Romanticism and Continental Influences: Writing in an Age of Europhobia

Mortensen, P.

During the 1790s and 1800s, cultural critics became convinced that Britain was being 'inundated' by pernicious literary translations imported from the European Continent. British Romanticism and Continental Influences discusses Romantic writers' complex and ambivalent responses to this threatening literary invasion. Confronted with foreign texts that seemed both attractive and repulsive, Mortensen argues, Romantic writers such as Wordsworth and Coleridge publicly distanced themselves from European sensationalism, even as they assimilated and revised its conventions in their own writing.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2004-02-03

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781403915153

DOI: 10.1057/9780230512207

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 230