Bücher der Reihe Cambridge Studies in Romanticism

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Caribbean was known as the 'grave of Europeans'. Drawing on a wide range of fictional and non-fictional accounts this book explores the cultural impact of such widespread disease, revealing how literature was crucial to the development and circulation of new medical ideas.

This book offers an original approach to the presence of Continental European literatures in post-Napoleonic Britain. In doing so it reconstructs a literary and cultural environment in which patriotic discourse - the expression of a triumphant international power - combined with intensely transformative engagements with foreign literary traditions.

This study of Romantic era London taverns explores metropolitan political and cultural life, focusing on architecture and convivial practice, including drinking songs, toasting practices, Anacreontic poetry and political ballads. It will appeal to literary scholars, historians, musicologists, and anyone interested in the history of the British pub.

For academics, students and general readers interested in how literature intersects with environmental history, a focus on Walter Scott and nineteenth-century writing puts this study in the context of the emerging Anthropocene. Scotland's human and nonhuman land relations along with ecocritical theory provide national and global perspectives.

The book uniquely brings together the fields of theater history, print culture, and literature, exploring new contexts around the work of actor Edmund Kean, essayist William Hazlitt, and poet John Keats, and reframing the relationship between theater, essays and poetry in Regency London.

Print and Performance in the 1820s explores a key decade of cultural change, focusing on fiction, periodicals, and theatrical performances in metropolitan centres such as London, Edinburgh, and Paris. Combining literary and cultural studies with media and performance history, it illuminates the importance of the late-Romantic age.

Despite our preconceptions, Romantic writers, artists, and philosophers did not think of honor as an archaic or regressive concept, but as a contemporary, even progressive value that operated as a counterpoint to freedom, a well-known preoccupation of the period's literature. Focusing on texts by William Godwin, William Wordsworth, Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Mary Prince, and Mary Seacole, this book argues that the revitalization of honor in the first half of the nineteenth century signalled a crisis in the emerging liberal order, one with which we still wrestle today: how can political subjects demand real, materialist forms of dignity in a system dedicated to an abstract, and often impoverished, idea of 'liberty'? Honor, Romanticism, and the Hidden Value of Modernity presents both a theory and a history of this question in the media of the Black Atlantic, the Jacobin novel, the landscape poem, and the "financial" romance.