British Romanticism and the Americas
A special issue of Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 March 2026 | Viewed by 748
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
British Romanticism has long been defined through its geographical relations. In scholarly analyses of recent decades, a heavily interpreted cluster of material, ideological and imaginative relations with France, Italy and Germany have been valuably supplemented by consideration of other European regions (e.g., Spain, Scandinavia) alongside interpretations of Romanticism’s wider global geographies.
This work has enriched our understanding in diverse ways: reconceptualising the dynamics of national identity, connecting Romantic era literature to political and imperial contexts, bringing to bear the theoretical resources of postcolonial scholarship, and foregrounding literary forms such as travel writing and translation.
However, despite significant work on the transatlantic sphere, our overall picture of British Romanticism’s relationships with the continents of North and South America remains comparatively incomplete. This is despite the period being bracketed by pivotal revolutions in the United States and the Spanish colonies of Latin America, respectively, and a rich strain of imaginative legacies: the Native American tropes of Wordsworth and Hemans; Southey’s use of Aztec settings, and Keats’ famous evocation of the Pacific frontier, to name but four.
This Special Issue invites reflections on British literature of the Romantic era and its relation to the Americas. In particular, we welcome contributions that address:
- Brazil and the Luso-Atlantic world;
- Representations of the Native American;
- Canada and the Arctic;
- Evolutions in travel writing;
- Relations between the literary cultures of Britain and the United States;
- New directions in conceptualising Romantic relations with the West Indies.
Dr. Christopher Stokes
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Romanticism
- geography
- empire
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