Global Romanticism

GlobalRomanticism: Origins, Orientations, andEngagements, 1760–1820 (2014) charts a new intellectual course by exploring the connections and implications of the literature and culture of the Romantic era in the globalization era. This provocative collection of essays by established scholars makes the case that many British Romantics "were committed to conceptualizing their world as an increasingly interconnected whole." In doing so, moreover, they were both responding to and shaping early modern versions of the  economic, political, sociocultural, and ecological forces known today as globalization.