In our post-9/11 world, the figure of the stranger—the foreigner, the enemy, the unknown visitor—carries a particular urgency, and the force of language use

A history of the writing of mobility in the Romantic period, through the work of major women writers.

Sheds new light on the presence and impact of Continental European literary traditions in post-Napoleonic Britain.

Presenting European Romanticism as a phenomenon that superseded national borders, and in which Britain played a vital role, this Cambridge History illuminates m

Hospitality and the Transatlantic Imagination, 1815-1835 argues that a select group of late-Romantic English and American writers disrupted national tropes by r