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Description of  Regional Romanticism: Literature and Southwest Scotland, c.1770 1830 (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print)

3031613244 pdf This book tracks the rise of modern cultural regionalism across the turn of the nineteenth century. Attending specifically to literature and literary culture, it examines how a particular regionsouthwest Scotlandwas reimagined between 1770 and 1830. Regionalisms were a vital, emergent force in this period, in dialogue with the local, the national, the transnational and the imperial. In the case of southwest Scotland, the literary inscription of the region was generated in a blossoming periodical press by visitors like Dorothy Wordsworth and John Keats by resident icon Robert Burns by homesick emigrants such as Allan Cunningham by adventurers, colonialists and pirates looking back from within and beyond the formal limits of empire by the unprecedented success of Walter Scott and by many others navigating the opportunities presented by rapidly evolving economic, environmental and infrastructural conditions. Read more