English Romanticism and the Celtic World.(Book Review)

Publication: The Modern Language Review

Publication Date: 01-JUL-05

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English Romanticism and the Celtic World. Ed. by GERARD CARRUTHERS and ALAN RAWES. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2003. xii+265 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]; $60. ISBN 0-521-81085-x.

Not that long ago, the title of Marilyn Gaull's English Romanticism: The Human Context (New York and London: Norton, 1988) provoked little comment; a generally helpful guide to Romanticism, it covered literatures from England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales under the umbrella of 'English'. Such was the state of Romantic studies, one that is only beginning to shift. Throughout the decade that followed, 'British' began to replace 'English' as a modifier of...

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