English Romantic Writers and the West Country

Long confounded with a monolithic British entity or misrepresented as ''Lakers'' and ''Cockneys'', the diverse regional forms of ''English Romanticism'' are ripe for reassessment. Ranging west of a line between the Wye at Tintern and Jane Austen''s Chawton, this book offers a first reconfiguration of Romantic culture in terms of English regional identity.