All Outputs (20)

French hash? Southey's editing of the Annual Anthology (2020)
Journal Article

Robert Southey’s Annual Anthology, which aimed to present a selection of current poetry and drew largely on his own friends and acquaintances, ran for just two volumes between 1799 and 1800. Although critics have shed light on individual poems and re... Read More about French hash? Southey's editing of the Annual Anthology.

What am I still doing here? Travel, travel writing, and old age (2018)
Journal Article

This article offers preliminary thoughts on travel writing from a gerontological perspective. Gender, race, and sexuality have provided important analytical frames for travel writing studies but age has yet to function as a topic or point of referenc... Read More about What am I still doing here? Travel, travel writing, and old age.

Coleridge, Wordsworth, and the Rhine Tour of 1828 (2017)
Journal Article

This essay explores Coleridge's and Wordsworth's Continental "reunion tour" in the summer of 1828. It asks why the poetic output of this tour was so meagre, on both sides, and considers this in the context of their lives and literary careers at that... Read More about Coleridge, Wordsworth, and the Rhine Tour of 1828.

In Search of Robert Lovell: Poet and Pantisocrat (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Robert Lovell (1771-1796) is known chiefly as one of the apostles of the ill-fated Pantisocratic emigration scheme conceived by Coleridge and Southey. This essay considers Lovell’s life and work... Read More about In Search of Robert Lovell: Poet and Pantisocrat.

Travel writing: Reception and readership (2015)
Book Chapter

Bristol's romantic poets: Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2015)
Book Chapter

Hydromania: Perspectives on Romantic Swimming (2015)
Journal Article

The author explores the origins and context of the Romantic generation’s passion for swimming, considers some of the literary meanings and uses of swimming in writing of that period, and looks in particular at the way swimming features in the lives a... Read More about Hydromania: Perspectives on Romantic Swimming.

Walking and travel (2015)
Book Chapter

William beckford: Travel writer, travel reader (2014)
Journal Article

© The Author 2013. William Beckford (1760-1844) is known chiefly as a collector, bibliophile, Orientalist, and author of the Gothic novel Vathek. In his early life, he was also an inveterate traveller, and the published and unpublished writing he pro... Read More about William beckford: Travel writer, travel reader.

Tales of the transatlantic (2013)
Journal Article

"Reviews, books" (2012)
Book Chapter

Romantic Readers and Transatlantic Travel: Expeditions and Tours in North America, 1760-1840 (2012)
Book

Contesting the ‘secret grudge’: the image of America in the Edinburgh Review, 1803-1829 (2009)
Journal Article

Curious fame: the literary relevance of Alexander Mackenzie reconsidered (2007)
Journal Article

The romantic poets and higher education (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This inaugural professorial lecture begins by describing what it was like to be a student at Oxford or Cambridge – then the only universities in England – in the late eighteenth century, exploring contemporary debates on their failings and tracing th... Read More about The romantic poets and higher education.

Self-discovery from Byron to Raban: The long afterlife of romantic travel (2005)
Journal Article

Despite the heterogeneity of Romantic-era travel writing, the idea of Romantic travel has become all but identified with a’subjective turn’ in the late eighteenth century, and with narratives of self-realisation or self-discovery, illustrated here ch... Read More about Self-discovery from Byron to Raban: The long afterlife of romantic travel.

The glory of motion: DeQuincey, travel and romanticism (2004)
Journal Article

The Romantic Period: The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature 1789-1830 (2003)
Book

The wages of travel: Wordsworth and the memorial tour of 1820 (2001)
Journal Article

Madoc in Scotland: A transatlantic perspective on Stepping Westward
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Wordsworth's Stepping Westward, one of the Poems Written During a Tour in Scotland included in Poems, in Two Volumes (1807), has received little critical attention compared with its companion tour poem, The Solitary Reaper. This essay offers a fresh... Read More about Madoc in Scotland: A transatlantic perspective on Stepping Westward.