Romantic Revisions in Novels from the Americas

Why are twentieth-century novelists from former British colonies in the Americas preoccupied with British Romantic poetry? In Romantic Revisions, Lauren Rule Maxwell examines five novels—Kincaid''s Lucy, Atwood''s The Handmaid''s Tale, McCarthy''s Blood Meridian, Fitzgerald''s The Great Gatsby, and Harris''s Palace of the Peacock—that contain crucial scenes engaging British Romantic poetry. Each w...