The Shelley-byron Circle And The Idea Of Europe (palgrave Studies In Cultural And Intellectual History)
by Paul Stock /
2010 / English / PDF
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This book investigates how Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and their
circle understood the idea of Europe. What geographical,
cultural, and ideological concepts did they associate with the
term? What does this tell us about politics and identity in
early nineteenth-century Britain? In addressing these
questions, Paul Stock challenges prevailing nationalist
interpretations of Romanticism, but without falling prey to
imprecise alternative notions of cosmopolitanism or “world
citizenship.” Instead, his book accounts for both the
transnational and the local in Romantic writing, reassessing
the period in terms of more complex, multi-layered identity
politics.
This book investigates how Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and their
circle understood the idea of Europe. What geographical,
cultural, and ideological concepts did they associate with the
term? What does this tell us about politics and identity in
early nineteenth-century Britain? In addressing these
questions, Paul Stock challenges prevailing nationalist
interpretations of Romanticism, but without falling prey to
imprecise alternative notions of cosmopolitanism or “world
citizenship.” Instead, his book accounts for both the
transnational and the local in Romantic writing, reassessing
the period in terms of more complex, multi-layered identity
politics.
