The Shelley-Byron Circle and the Idea of Europe (Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History)

This book investigates how Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and their circle understood the idea of Europe. What geographical, cultural, and ideological concepts did they associate with the term? What does this tell us about politics and identity in early nineteenth-century Britain? In addressing these questions, Paul Stock challenges prevailing nationalist interpretations of Romanticism, but without falling prey to imprecise alternative notions of cosmopolitanism or “world citizenship.” Instead, his book accounts for both the transnational and the local in Romantic writing, reassessing the period in terms of more complex, multi-layered identity politics. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 10 Introduction......Page 12 Part 1 The Childe Harold Pilgrimage: Byron’s European Tour, 1809–18......Page 28 1 “Spain, Portugal, and Greece”: Byron on the Borders of Europe, 1809–11......Page 30 2 “Repairing Shattered Thrones”: Post-Waterloo Europe and the Shelley–Byron Circle, June 1815–December 1816......Page 50 3 “The Elysium of Europe”: Byron, Italy, and Europe, June 1817–July 1818......Page 76 Part 2 Europe and the Universal Revolution: Percy Shelley’s Europe, 1817–22......Page 108 4 “Revolution in a European Nation”: The Shelley Circle, January 1817–March 1818......Page 110 5 “From a Particular to a Universal”: The Shelley Circle, 1820–22......Page 132 Part 3 The System of Europe: Byron and European Politics, 1822–24......Page 160 6 “A Congress for Outworn Europe”: Byron’s International Relations, October 1822–July 1823......Page 162 7 “The Cause of Greece, the Cause of Europe”: The Byron Circle, July 1823–April 1824......Page 186 Notes......Page 210 Bibliography......Page 246 B......Page 264 C......Page 265 E......Page 267 H......Page 268 L......Page 269 N......Page 270 P......Page 271 S......Page 272 W......Page 274 Z......Page 275 pt. 1. The Childe Harold pilgrimage : Byron's European tour, 1809-1818 "Spain, Portugal, and Greece" : Byron on the borders of Europe, 1809-1811 "Repairing shattered thrones" : post-Waterloo Europe and the Shelley-Byron circle, June 1815-December 1816 "The elysium of Europe" : Byron, Italy, and Europe, June 1817-July 1818 pt. 2. Europe and the universal revolution : Percy Shelley's Europe, 1817-22 "Revolution in a European nation" : the Shelley circle, January 1817-March 1818 "From a particular to a universal" : the Shelley circle, 1820-22 pt. 3. The system of Europe : Byron and European politics, 1822-24 "A congress for outworn Europe" : Byron's international relations, October 1822-July 1823 The cause of Greece, the cause of Europe : the Byron circle, July 1823-April 1824. . This book investigates how Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and their circle understood the idea of "Europe."