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During the 1790s and 1800s, cultural critics became convinced that Britain was being 'inundated' by pernicious literary translations imported from the European Continent. British Romanticism and Continental Influences discusses Romantic writers' complex and ambivalent responses to this threatening literary invasion. Confronted with foreign texts that seemed both attractive and repulsive, Mortensen argues, Romantic writers such as Wordsworth and Coleridge publicly distanced themselves from European sensationalism, even as they assimilated and revised its conventions in their own writing.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: British Romanticism and Continental Influences
• Subtitle: Writing in an Age of Europhobia
• Author: Peter Mortensen
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 230
• EAN: 9781349512126
• ID: 12045608
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Weight: 311 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. January 2004

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