Jean-Jacques Rousseau and British Romanticism: Gender and Selfhood, Politics and Nation

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Bringing together leading scholars from the USA, UK and Europe, this is the first substantial study of the seminal influence of Jean-Jacques Rousseau on British Romanticism. Reconsidering Rousseaus connection to canonical Romantic authors such as Wordsworth, Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and British Romanticism also explores his impact on a wide range of literature, including anti-Jacobin fiction, educational works, familiar essays, nature writing and political discourse. Convincingly demonstrating that the relationship between Rousseaus thought and British Romanticism goes beyond mere reception or influence to encompass complex forms of connection, transmission and appropriation, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and British Romanticism is a vital new contribution to scholarly understanding of British Romantic literature and its transnational contexts.

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Rousseaus relationship to Romanticism is explored in some superb essays British Romantic women writers, Julie and Childe Harolds Pilgrimage, and the Romantic essayists are some of the topics covered in this collection. * SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 *

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Russell Goulbourne is Professor of French Literature at Kings College London, UK. He is the author of Voltaire Comic Dramatist (2006) and a scholarly translation of Rousseaus Reveries of the Solitary Walker (2011). David Higgins is Associate Professor in English Literature at the University of Leeds, UK. He has published widely on Romantic-period literature, including the books Romantic Genius and the Literary Magazine (2005) and Romantic Englishness: Local, National, and Global Selves, 1780-1850 (2014).