Features 13 essays re-examining a selection of romantic-era writers, texts, and genres to explore the relation between romanticism as a literary field and the emergence of the second British empire during the formative period of 1780-1834.

Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Race, Gender, and the Romantic Construction of English National identity 1. The Racial Sublime, by Laura Doyle 2. Domesticating Fictions and Nationalizing Women: Edmund Burke, Property, and the Reproduction of Englishness, by Deidre Lynch 3. Mothering and National identity in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, by Rajani Sudan Part II. Imperial Fictions: Romantic Others, Other Romantics 4. Mumbo Jumbo: Mungo park and the Rhetoric of Romantic Africa, by Ashton Nichols 5. Hannah Kilham: Gender, the Gambia, and the Politics of Language, by Moira Ferguson 6. Feminizing the Feminine: Early Women Writers on India, by Balachandra Rajan 7. The Necessary Orientalist? The Giaour and Nineteenth-Century Imperialist Misogyny, by Joseph Lew 8. Versions of the East: Byron, Shelley, and the Orient, by Saree Makdisi 9. HemansOs ORed IndiansO: Reading Stereotypes, by Nancy Moore Goslee Part III> Resituating Romanticism 10. Epic Ambivalence: Imperial Politics and Romantic Deflection in WilliamsO Peru and LandorOs Gebir, by Alan Richardson 11. Dark Characters, Native Grounds: WordsworthOs Imagination of Imperialism, by Alison Hickey 12. OAm I Not a Woman, and a aSister?O: Slavery, Romanticism, and Gender, by Anne K. Mellor 13. Tradition and The Interesting Narrative: Capitalism, Abolition, and the Romantic Individual, by Sonia Hofkosh Index