English Literature and the Wider World, Volume 3: 1830-1876
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Edited by Michael Cotsell
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Discussing the period from the impact of Reform to the rise of Disraelian imperialism, this volume assesses writersÆ relations to British expansionism and the alternative of a growing Europeanism. Among the topics considered are the reevalution of Romantic responses to foreign travel; the search abroad for "civic images" to oppose to industrialism; fiction and expansionism; the Europeanness of mid-Victorian poetry; the rise of middle-class tourism; the fascination of Italy and the Levant; and relations with America and Ireland.