This study is the first to explore the Mediterranean and its ubiquity in nineteenth-century British literature. Lindsey N. Chappell recovers the region's centrality to Romantic and Victorian constructions of the past, the present, and the shape of time itself, revealing how classical and biblical heritage shaped British imperialism.
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