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9 results in Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism

Kirkyard Romanticism
  • Death, Modernity and Scottish Literature in the Nineteenth Century
  • Sarah Sharp
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    10 October 2026
  • The early nineteenth century saw the dead take on new life in Scottish literature; sometimes quite literally. This book brings together a range of Scottish Romantic texts, identifying a shared interest an imagined national dead. It argues that the publications of Edinburgh-based publisher William Blackwood were the crucible for this new form of Scottish cultural nationalism. Scottish Romantic authors including James Hogg, John Wilson and John Galt, use the Romantic kirkyard to engage with, and often challenge, contemporary ideas of modernity. The book also explores the extensive ripples that this cultural moment generated across Scottish, British and wider Anglophone literary sphere over the next century.

Law, Equity and Romantic Writing
  • Seeking Justice in the Age of Revolutions
  • Edited by Michael Demson, Regina Hewitt
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    07 October 2026
  • This provocative and timely volume examines the activity of seeking justice through literature during the ‘age of revolutions’ from 1750 to 1850 – a period which was marked by efforts to expand political and human rights and to rethink attitudes towards poverty and criminality. While the chapters revolve around legal topics, they concentrate on literary engagements with the experience of the law, revealing how people perceived the fairness of a given legal order and worked with and against regulations to adjust the rule of law to the demands of conscience. The volume updates analysis of this conflict between law and equity by drawing on the concept of ‘epistemic injustice’ to describe the harm done to personal identity and collective flourishing by the uneven distribution of resources and the wish to punish breaches of order. It shows how writing and reading can foment inquiries into the meanings of ‘justice’ and ‘equity’ and aid efforts to humanise the rule of law.

Romantic Women's Writing and Sexual Transgression
  • Edited by Kathryn Ready, David Sigler
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    03 March 2026
    Print publication:
    28 February 2024
  • Women's writing was a crucial part of the history of sexuality in the Romantic period, yet has not often been seen as part of that history. This collection shows how women writers fit into a tradition of Romanticism that recognizes transgressive sexuality as a defining feature. Building on recent research on the period's sexual culture, it shows how women writers were theorizing perversions in their literary work and often leading transgressive sexual lives. In doing so, the collection also challenges current understandings of 'transgression' as a sexual category.

Remediating the 1820s
  • Edited by Jon Mee, Matthew Sangster
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    15 March 2025
    Print publication:
    01 November 2022
  • The 1820s has commonly been overlooked in literary and cultural studies, seen as a barren interregnum between the achievements of Romanticism and the Victorian era proper, or, at best, as a time of transition bridging two major periods of cultural production. This volume contends that the innovations, fears and experiments of the 1820s are both of considerable interest in themselves and vital for comprehending how Victorian and Romantic culture wrote and visioned one another into being. Remediating the 1820s explores the decade's own sense of itself as a period of expansion in terms of the projection of British power and knowledge, but also its tremendous uncertainty about where this left traditional identities and moral values. In doing so, the collection articulates how specific novelties, transformations and anxieties of the time remediated and remade culture and society in manners that continue powerfully to resonate.

Romanticism and the Poetics of Orientation
  • Joey S. Kim
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    04 March 2025
    Print publication:
    30 September 2023
  • What happens when we redirect our lines of reading along new lines, borders, and orientations-those that fail to fit neatly into the cardinal directions of North, South, East, and West? What is, who stands for, and where exactly is the 'Orient' in British Romantic poetry? To where does the 'Orient' lead? Romanticism and the Poetics of Orientation responds by tracing shifting orientations-cultural, geographical, aesthetic, racial, and gendered- through Orientalist sites, subjects, and settings. Kim coins the term 'poetics of orientation' to describe a poetics newly aware of cultural difference as a site of aesthetic contestation. She focuses on the contestation that occurs at the site of the lyric subject. A 'poetics of orientation', rather than situating the lyric subject in assumed racial whiteness, repositions the lyric subject within discussions of Orientalism and racial formation, tracing the white supremacist logics that have for too long been dismissed as inessential or nonconsequential to Romantic studies.

Romantic Environmental Sensibility

Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Cosmopolitan
  • Laura Kirkley
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    10 August 2023
    Print publication:
    31 August 2022
  • Considering her transformation of material from the works of European writers and orators such as Rousseau, Mirabeau, Félicité de Genlis, Christian Gotthilf Salzmann and Margareta de Cambon, as well as British sentimental philosophers and the radical theologian Richard Price, this book argues that Wollstonecraft espouses a cosmopolitan ethic that subordinates local and national allegiances to philanthropy, or love of humankind. At a time of international conflict, burgeoning capitalism and colonial enterprise, she represents philanthropy and cultural authenticity as the means to resist tyranny and imperialism in all their forms and light the way to global justice.

Romanticism and Consciousness, Revisited
  • Edited by Richard C. Sha, Joel Faflak
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    14 July 2023
    Print publication:
    31 August 2022
  • With explosive interest in Romantic science and theories of mind and a renewed sense of the period's porousness to the world, along with new developments in cognitive theory and research, Romantic studies scholars have been called to revisit and re-map the terrain laid out in the highly influential 1970 volume Romanticism and Consciousness. Romanticism and Consciousness, Revisited brings this shift in approach to Romantic 'consciousness' - no longer the possession of a sole self but transactional, social, and entangled with the outside world - up to date.

British Romanticism and Denmark
  • Cian Duffy
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    07 June 2023
    Print publication:
    31 August 2022
  • British Romanticism and Denmark shows how the articulation in British Romantic-period writing of the idea of a 'Northern' cultural identity - shared by Britain and Denmark and rooted in the Classical Scandinavian past - played an important role in the emergence and development of Romanticism and Romantic nationalism in both countries. By addressing a wide range of Nordic as well as Anglophone scholarship, this study offers new perspectives on British, Danish and European Romanticisms, and on the relationship between them.