Timothy Heimlich

Chapter · January 1, 2025 While Shelley produced many of his most important works in self-imposed exile from Great Britain, various locales in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales played an important role in his personal and poetic development. Attending to Shelley’s experiences a ... Full text Cite

Walter Scott’s Place Reading, 1805–1816

Journal Article European Romantic Review · January 1, 2022 This essay explores Walter Scott’s artistic pivot from writing poetry to writing novels during the Napoleonic Wars and the subsequent “heroic age of popular Radicalism.” In the famine-stricken postwar years, early British socialists like Robert Owen wrongl ... Full text Cite

The silence of the land: Antiquarian gothic and Ireland, 1790-1831

Journal Article Elh English Literary History · September 1, 2021 Full text Cite

Romantic wales and the imperial picturesque

Journal Article Modern Language Quarterly · June 1, 2020 This essay argues that the aesthetic category named the picturesque was first systematized in a Welsh colonial context and that picturesque looking always reflects, to some degree, its initially imperialist function. While the picturesque rapidly acceded t ... Full text Cite

“We wed not with the stranger”: Disjunctive Histories, Fluid Geographies, and Contested Nationalities in Romantic Fictions of Wales

Journal Article Studies in Romanticism · June 1, 2016 Full text Cite