Presents an ecocritical study of poetic atmosphere, a concept first developed through Romanticism, particularly in the poetry of William Wordsworth.

Explores the developing cultural tensions and connections that created a 'sister-art' movement between creative visual art and its literary counterparts.

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

This book explores the complex relationship between British literature and culture, and the East in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In doing so it illuminates the larger cultural conflict which animated a nation debating with itself about its place in the world and relation to its others.