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Examines dissident conceptions of space in the British Romantic era

Radical Romantics is about utopias and failed utopias, about cities that are palimpsests, and about the unwieldy span of the ocean. From William Blake’s visionary poetry to Lord Byron’s Eastern romances, from prophetic pamphlets to travel narratives, texts of the Romantic era make use of imaginative spaces to reveal the contours and limits of territorial sovereignty. In doing so, they raise fundamental questions about our understanding of both territorial and imagined space. What are the means by which people can conceive of geographical space without resorting to the terms of nationalism? Is it possible to imagine a space beyond territory, as movement itself? How can we articulate the overlap between mapped and lived space?

Key Features

  • Engages with the critical frameworks of cultural geography, cartography, and the burgeoning field of oceanic studies
  • Reformulates theories of colonization and empire in the Romantic period
  • Puts canonical poetry in dialogue with travel tales and prophetic tracts

Radical Romantics: Prophets, Pirates, and the Space Beyond Nation

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Examines dissident conceptions of space in the British Romantic era Radical Romantics is about utopias and failed utopias, about cities... Read more

    Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
    Publication Date: 31/07/2016
    ISBN13: 9781474409421, 978-1474409421
    ISBN10: 1474409423

    Number of Pages: 192

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies , Education

    Description

    Examines dissident conceptions of space in the British Romantic era

    Radical Romantics is about utopias and failed utopias, about cities that are palimpsests, and about the unwieldy span of the ocean. From William Blake’s visionary poetry to Lord Byron’s Eastern romances, from prophetic pamphlets to travel narratives, texts of the Romantic era make use of imaginative spaces to reveal the contours and limits of territorial sovereignty. In doing so, they raise fundamental questions about our understanding of both territorial and imagined space. What are the means by which people can conceive of geographical space without resorting to the terms of nationalism? Is it possible to imagine a space beyond territory, as movement itself? How can we articulate the overlap between mapped and lived space?

    Key Features

    • Engages with the critical frameworks of cultural geography, cartography, and the burgeoning field of oceanic studies
    • Reformulates theories of colonization and empire in the Romantic period
    • Puts canonical poetry in dialogue with travel tales and prophetic tracts

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