All Outputs (9)
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 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.