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Book SynopsisDuring the 1790s and 1800s, cultural critics became convinced that Britain was being 'inundated' by pernicious literary translations imported from the European Continent.
Trade Review'This book will make an important contribution to the new wave of Romantic studies currently broadening the worldly contexts of Romanticism away from a narrowly conceived English nativism.' - Saree Makdisi, Professor of English, University of California
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: 'Sickly and Stupid German Tragedies' 'We Know that the Enemy Is Working among Us': The Rhetoric of Romantic Europhobia 'Dethroning German Sublimity': Outrageous Stimulation in Romantic Ballad-Writing 'Il Est Devenue Classique en Angleterre': Some Versions of Romantic (Anti-)Pastoral 'Partizans of the German Theatre': The Poetics and Politics of Romantic Dramatic Translation 'The Descent of Odin': Romantic Writers among the Norsemen Notes Index
