The Bloomsbury Handbook of Global Romantic Literature and Culture
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A new conceptualization and expansion of Romanticism that includes global texts and establishes them as part of the Romantic tradition.
Stepping away from Eurocentric scholarship, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Global Romantic Literature and Culture embraces a vast global archive that invites readers to unearth the unexplored roots of Romantic aesthetics, affects, and abolitionary solidarities that spread unevenly but no less profoundly across cultures and continents.
Contributors rewrite resistance as a decolonial, global phenomenon, examining literary and cultural responses to slave revolts in Jamaica and Brazil, political revolution in Haiti and Latin America, military, cultural, and economic rebellions in India and China, indigenous struggles such as the Seminole Wars, and other configurations of space, time, and event. The essays also engage with counter-hegemonic agency beyond the radical individual and the European liberal state, such as maroon collectives, petitions, anti-capitalist communities in North America after 1776, indigenous land sharing, and sharecropping in Mexico developed by communities that were excluded.
Through these readings, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Global Romantic Literature and Culture reveals a myriad of conceptions of resistance and creativity from around the world and across history, suggesting how we might redefine or find new concepts and language altogether for terms such as “revolution,” “emancipation,” “the global,” and the "Romantic Era." It also examines what methods we might find that were already latent within that era, poised to disrupt European colonialism and to reconstitute an equitable and loving life.
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Acknowledgements
Introduction Arif Camoglu (University of California, Davis, USA), Gaura Narayan (SUNY Purchase, USA), Omar F. Miranda (University of San Francisco, USA), and Kate Singer (Mt. Holyoke College, USA)
PART One: Migration, Circulation, Translation
1. Between Slavery and Servitude: Asian Seamen Fighting for Freedom in the Black Indo-Atlantic, 1750–1805 Humberto Garcia (University of California, Merced, USA)
2. Of Minstrels, Ruins, and Transcultural Worlds: Henry Derozio, the Indian Nation, and a Eurasian Romanticism Esha Sil (University of Helsinki, Finland)
3. Addiction Treatment and Chinese Political Fiction Menglu Gao (University of Denver, USA)
4. Colonial Ambivalence, Spatial Representation: Alonso de Ercilla's La Araucana and Helen Maria Williams's Peru Diego Alegria (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
5. Steppe Realism: Nikolai Karazin's Two-Legged Wolf Emily Laskin (Independent Scholar, USA)
PART Two: Decolonial Histories
6. Disability, Un(re)productivity and Emancipation in the Freedom Narrative of Mary Prince Kostantinos Pozoukidis (University of Maryland, College Park, USA)
7. The Absencing of Palestine and (Post) Theological Romanticism Lenora Hanson (New York University, USA) and Mohammad Sakhnini (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates)
8. Jabarti's Muddat and Imperial Fictions of Egypt Mariam Wassif (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
9. Haiti and the Poetics of Indigenism Christen Mucher (Smith College, USA)
10. Transforming Romantic-Period British Orientalism: Bankim Chandra Chatterjee's Hybrid Construction of Hindu Nationalism in Anandamath (1882) Alex Watson (Meiji University, Japan)
PART Three: Aesthetics, Genres, Medias, Objects
11. Ghalib's Ghazals: An Aesthetic Refuge from Political Turmoil Gaura Narayan (SUNY Purchase, USA)
12. “Our Avenging Climate”: Ecological Aesthetics and The Haitian Declaration of Independence Michele Speitz (Furman University, USA)
13. Speaking Past: Politics and Haitian Pastoral in Oswald Durand and Virginie Sampeur Tristam Wolff (Northwestern University, USA)
14. The Eclipse of Elegy: José María Heredia and the Creole Poetic Imagination Carlos Abreu Mendoza (Texas State University, USA)
15. John Rollin Ridge's Repurposing of the Colonial Sublime in Assertion of Cherokee Land Values in “Mount Shasta,” 1853 Emma B. Mincks (University of New Mexico, USA)
16. (Re)Considering Oral Poetic Forms in the Romantic Era: South African Praise Poetry Illona Meyer (University of South Africa, South Africa)
PART Four: Wake Work/Alt Genealogies
17. Sufism: Romanticism Beyond Borders Hajar Mahfoodh (University of Bahrain, Bahrain)
18. An Aesthetics of Sorrow: Romanticism in Colonial Korea Jane E. Kim (Biola University, USA)
19. Persian Romanticisms: From Constitutional Revolution to New Poetry Marjan Mojammadi (Bilkent University, Turkey)
20. Grammaphontology and the Grammar of Return: Enemy Slayer, Prometheus Unbound, and the Sonic Redistribution of the Sensible Jacob Leveton (Loyola University Chicago, USA)
Index
Product details
| Published | 12 Nov 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 416 |
| ISBN | 9798216449126 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 5 bw illus |
| Series | Bloomsbury Handbooks |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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