This book examines the Cockney phenomenon of the late Romantic period - the new metropolitan art and literature of the 1820s and 1830s.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I: Travelling Subjects and Transitive Identities -- 1 Reformation in Man

Illuminates Britain's literary field during the 1820s as a decade of improvisation, speculation and rapid cultural change.

John Clare (1793-1864) is one of the most sensitive poetic observers of the natural world. Born into a rural labouring family, he felt connected to two communit

A provocative examination of how Romantic imaginings of the end of the world shaped thinking about politics and political change.