Description: Surveying the literary and cultural landscapes of the long eighteenth century, this collection examines the many locales that shaped Britons' affiliations and identities. Essays on individual authors, a variety of literary genres, and diverse cultural practices, demonstrate how representations of place from the Restoration through the Romantic era enabled British authors to articulate distinct but interrelated local, national and transnational identities and communities.
Review Quotes: 'Recommended.' Choice '... the collection's focus remains very closely on the literary throughout - a category which is defined refreshingly broadly, and within which is produced a detailed, nuanced survey of the role of authorial tradition and reading practice.' Romantic Textualities 'This excellent collection of essays contributes to a growing body of critical work that challenges the predominance of the interpretative model of the nation-state ... cumulatively these essays represent an advertisement for the benefits of moving beyond monolithic assumptions about place, such as that of centre and periphery, or local and national, towards more complex understandings of networks between places and between different understandings of place.' Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 'Readers of this collection will come away with provocative new ways of theorizing place and decentering nation, and Dafydd Moore's insightful coda helps connect such models to broader trends in place-based research.' BARS Review