BIBFRAME Work

Title

Jean-Jacques Rousseau and British Romanticism

Type

• Text
• Monograph

Contribution

• Higgins, David (editor)
• Goulbourne, Russell (editor)

Subject

• Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century (LCSH)
• English literature--Philosophy (LCSH)
• Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778--Influence. (LCSH)
• Romanticism--Great Britain (LCSH)
• Gender identity in literature (LCSH)
• Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--18th century (LCSH)
• LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh (BISACSH)

Language

• eng

Classification

• DDC: 820.9/145 (Assigner: dlc)
• LIT004120
• LCC: PR457 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• index
• bibliography

Summary

"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 Rousseau's 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 Rousseau's 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- 1. Rousseau and British Romantic Women Writers, Stephen C. Behrendt (University of Nebraska, USA) -- 2. 'Rousseau's Ground': Locating a Refuge for the Libertarian Man of Feeling in Julie, or the New Heloise and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Helen Stark (Queen Mary University of London, UK) -- 3. 'The Columbus of the Alps': Rousseau and the Writing of Mountain Experience in British Literature of the Romantic Period, Simon Bainbridge (Lancaster University, UK) -- 4. Romanticism and Rousseau in Wales, Heather Williams (University of Wales, UK) -- 5. Enchanted Ground?: Rousseau, Republicanism and Switzerland, Patrick Vincent (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland) -- 6. Reading Rousseau in the Anti-Jacobin Novel, Pascal Fischer (University of Bamberg, Germany) -- 7. 'The Scene Itself': Rousseauvian Drama and Roman Space in Shelley's The Cenci, Rebecca Nesvet (University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, USA) -- 8. Rousseauvian Vision and Anthropology in Percy Shelley's Alastor, Thomas Roche (University of Georgia Press, USA) -- 9. Rousseau's Boat: The 'Fifth Walk', Romanticism and Idleness, Rowan Boyson (Kings College London, USA) -- 10. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile and Britain, Frances Ferguson (University of Chicago, USA) -- 11. Rousseau and the Romantic Essayists, Gregory Dart (University College London, UK) Index.

Authorized Access Point

Jean-Jacques Rousseau and British Romanticism

Geographic Coverage

• Great Britain

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-30T17:49:48.103003+00:00
• Agent: cbc
• Status: c
• Derived from: 23981285

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-30
• Cataloger id: Unknown
• Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
• Description language: eng
• Description authentication: pcc