Book section · 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 ...
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Book · January 1, 2025
At the beginning of the long eighteenth century, the adjective 'British' primarily meant Welsh, in a narrow and exclusive sense. As the nation and the empire expanded, so too did Britishness come to name a far more diffuse identity. In parallel with this t ...
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Journal articleEuropean 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 ...
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Journal articleModern 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 ...
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