Offers a wide range of authors and themes including the influence of Spain on poets like William Wordsworth, Robert Southey, S.T. Coleridge, the Shelleys, and Felicia Hemans
Addresses topics relevant to not just literary studies but also economics, politics, translation, religion, war, and popular culture
Highlights the often dismissed or overlooked influence of Spain on British Romanticism

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Diego Saglia is Professor of English Literature at the University of Parma, Italy.
Ian Haywood is Professor of English Literature at the University of Roehampton, UK.

Inhalt
1 Introduction: Spain and British Romanticism.- 2 The Matter of Spain in Romantic Britain.- 3 Robert Southey and the Peninsular campaign.- 4 Southey, Spain, and Romantic Apostasy.- 5 Wordsworth's Spain, 1808-1811.-6 Coleridge and Spanish Literature . - 7 Spain and Byron's The Age of Bronze. - 8 Spain and Cosmopolitan Liberalism.- 9 The Shelleys and Spain.- 10 Spain in Gothic Fiction.- 11 British Women Writers of Peninsular Fiction.- 12 The Spanish Revolution in Print and Image.- 13 Alexander Dallas's Reimagining Spain.- 14 Valentín de Llanos and Spanish Writing in Exile. <p