Overview
- Covers a wide range of writers, with chapter studies on travel writing, poetry, periodicals, novels and antiquarianism
- Develops a new regional approach to studying eighteenth and nineteenth-century Scottish literary and cultural history
- Interrogates the geography of Romanticism from a regional perspective in dialogue with the local, national and imperial
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print (PERCP)
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Keywords
- Dumfriesshire
- Galloway
- southwest Scotland
- travel writing
- Robert Burns
- Romantic literature
- Print culture
- Regionalism
- Romanticism
- Scottish literature
- Walter Scott
About this book
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 region—southwest Scotland—was 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. Regional Romanticism illuminates a neglected aspect of anglophone literary history, acknowledging regions and regionalism as a primary frame of reference in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century culture.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Gerard Lee McKeever is Lecturer in Modern Scottish Literature at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He is the author of Dialectics of Improvement: Scottish Romanticism, 1786–1831 (2020), the winner of the BARS First Book Prize 2021.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Regional Romanticism
Book Subtitle: Literature and Southwest Scotland, c.1770–1830
Authors: Gerard Lee McKeever
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-61324-1Due: 28 July 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-61327-2Due: 28 July 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-61325-8Due: 28 July 2024
Series ISSN: 2634-6516
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6524
Edition Number: 1
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations