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Wales, Romanticism, and the Making of Imperial Culture - Timothy Heimlich

Wales, Romanticism, and the Making of Imperial Culture

Buch | Hardcover
320 Seiten
2026
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-61887-8 (ISBN)
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This ambitious study argues that in the long eighteenth century the meanings of Britain and Britishness, once synonymous with Wales, transformed. It opens paradigm-shifting insight into the influences of empire and imperialism upon British literary production, engaging in debates around imperialism both internally and abroad.
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 transformation, writers sought to invent a new British literary tradition. Timothy Heimlich demonstrates that these developments were more interrelated than scholars have yet realized, revealing how Wales was both integral to and elided from Britishness at the same historical moment that it was becoming a vitally important cultural category. Critically re-examining the role of nationalism in the development of colonized identities and complicating the core-periphery binary, he sheds new light on longstanding critical debates about internal colonialism and its relationship to the project of empire-building abroad.

Timothy Heimlich is Assistant Professor of Long Eighteenth-Century Literature in English at Utrecht University. Previously, he taught at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Cambridge. He has published articles in several venues, including English Literary History, Modern Language Quarterly, Studies in Romanticism, and European Romantic Review.

Introduction: reinventing Britishness; 1. Wales and the imperial Gaze, 1726–1800; 2. Ancient Britons and ancient Britains: writing British history, 1723–1803; 3. The Colonial heartland: the double role of Wales in 1780s fiction; 4. The other within: racializing Welshness, 1790–1799; 5. 'A perfect Potosi': Wales and imperial Britishness in the Romantic national novel; Conclusion: Wordsworth and Wales; Notes; Works cited.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 22.1.2026
Reihe/Serie Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Literatur Lyrik / Dramatik Lyrik / Gedichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte
ISBN-10 1-009-61887-3 / 1009618873
ISBN-13 978-1-009-61887-8 / 9781009618878
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