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British culture of the Romantic period is distinguished by a protracted and varied interest in things Spanish. The climax in the publication of fictional, and especially poetical, narratives on Spain corresponds with the intense phase of Anglo-Iberian exchanges delimited by the Peninsular War (1808-14), on the one hand, and the Spanish experiment of a constitutional monarchy that lasted from 1820 until 1823, on the other. Although current scholarship has uncovered and reconstructed several foreign maps of British Romanticism - from the Orient to the South Seas - exotic European geographies have not received much attention. Spain, in particular, is one of the most neglected of these 'imaginary' Romantic geographies, even if between the 1800s and the 1820s, and beyond, it was a site of wars and invasions, the object of foreign economic interests relating to its American colonies, and a geopolitical area crucial to the European balance designed by the post-Waterloo Vienna settlement. This study considers the various ways in which Spain figured in Romantic narrative verse, recovering the discursive materials employed in fictional representation, and assessing the relevance of this activity in the context of the dominant themes and preoccupations in contemporary British culture. The texts examined here include medievalizing and chivalric fictions, Orientalist adventures set in Islamic Granada, and modern-day tales of the anti-Napoleonic campaign in the Peninsula. Recovering some of the outstanding works and issues elaborated by British Romanticism through the cultural geography of Spain, this study shows that the Iberian country was an inexhaustible source of imaginative materials for British culture at a time when its imperial boundaries were expanding and its geopolitical influence was increasing in Europe and overseas.

English literature --- Romanticism --- Spanish influences --- History and criticism --- Poetry --- Comparative literature --- Spanish literature

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Thematology --- English literature --- Literature --- anno 1800-1899 --- Great Britain --- Europe

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This collection of thirteen specially commissioned essays by international scholars takes a fresh look at the profound impact of the Peninsular War on Romantic British literature and culture. The expertly authored chapters explore the valorization of Spain by nineteenth-century poets such as Lord Byron, William Wordsworth, Robert Southey, S.T. Coleridge, the Shelleys, and Felicia Hemans in contrast to the Enlightenment-era view of Spain as a backwards nation in decline. Topics discussed include the vision of Spain in Gothic fiction, Spanish experiences of exile as exemplified by the conflict between Valentin de Llanos and Joseph Blanco White, and British women writers' approach to peninsular fiction. Spain in British Romanticism: 1800-1840 is essential reading for scholars and enthusiasts of Romantic literature and Spanish history. .

Romanticism --- English literature --- Pseudo-romanticism --- Romanticism in literature --- History and criticism. --- Spain --- In literature. --- Literature. --- Comparative literature. --- Literature, Modern --- British literature. --- Nineteenth-Century Literature. --- Comparative Literature. --- British and Irish Literature. --- Literature --- Comparative literature --- Literature, Comparative --- Philology --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Authors --- Authorship --- 19th century. --- History and criticism --- Aesthetics --- Fiction --- Literary movements --- Literature, Modern-19th century. --- Literature, Modern—19th century. --- European literature. --- European Literature. --- European literature

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This collection of thirteen specially commissioned essays by international scholars takes a fresh look at the profound impact of the Peninsular War on Romantic British literature and culture. The expertly authored chapters explore the valorization of Spain by nineteenth-century poets such as Lord Byron, William Wordsworth, Robert Southey, S.T. Coleridge, the Shelleys, and Felicia Hemans in contrast to the Enlightenment-era view of Spain as a backwards nation in decline. Topics discussed include the vision of Spain in Gothic fiction, Spanish experiences of exile as exemplified by the conflict between Valentin de Llanos and Joseph Blanco White, and British women writers' approach to peninsular fiction.  Spain in British Romanticism: 1800-1840 is essential reading for scholars and enthusiasts of Romantic literature and Spanish history. .

Comparative literature --- English literature --- Literature --- literatuur --- Engelse literatuur --- Shelley, Percy Bysshe --- de Llanos Gutíerrez, Valentín --- Blanco White, Joseph --- Southey, Robert --- Wordsworth, William --- Shelley, Mary --- Hemans, Felicia --- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor --- Byron [Lord] --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1900-1999 --- Great Britain --- Ireland --- Spain

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"Traces the Gothic impulses in proto-Romantic and Romantic British, American and European culture, 1740-1830"--Back cover.

Gothic revival (Literature) --- Romanticism. --- Literature, Modern --- English literature --- American literature --- European literature --- Literature, Modern. --- History and criticism. --- Themes, motives. --- 1700 - 1899 --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Pseudo-romanticism --- Romanticism in literature --- Aesthetics --- Fiction --- Literary movements --- Revival movements (Art) --- Romanticism --- Subjects --- Gothic fiction (Literary genre) --- English fiction --- Gothic horror tales (Literary genre) --- Gothic novels (Literary genre) --- Gothic romances (Literary genre) --- Gothic tales (Literary genre) --- Romances, Gothic (Literary genre) --- Detective and mystery stories --- Horror tales --- Suspense fiction