British Romanticism and Continental Influences

by Peter Mortensen

Book Overview

During the 1790s and 1800s, cultural critics became convinced that Britain was being 'inundated' by pernicious literary translations imported from the European Continent. British Romanticism and Continental Influences discusses Romantic writers' complex and ambivalent responses to this threatening literary invasion. Confronted with foreign texts that seemed both attractive and repulsive, Mortensen argues, Romantic writers such as Wordsworth and Coleridge...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349512125
• ISBN13: 9781349512126
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"