Brown Romantics: Poetry and Nationalism in the Global Nineteenth Century proceeds from the conviction that it is high time for the academy in general and scholars of European Romanticism to acknowledge the extensive international impact of Romantic poetry. Chander demonstrates the importance of Romantic notions of authorship to such poets as Henry Derozio (India), Egbert Martin (Guyana), and Henry Lawson (Australia), using the work of these poets, each prominent in the national cultural of his own country, to explain the crucial role that the Romantic myth of the poet qua legislator plays in the development of nationalist movements across the globe. The first study of its kind, Brown Romantics examines how each of these authors develop poetic means of negotiating such key issues as colonialism, immigration, race, and ethnicity.

About the Author
Manu Samriti Chander is assistant professor of English at Rutgers University.

Reviews
Manu Samriti Chander's Brown Romantics: Poetry and Nationalism in the Global Nineteenth Century is the kind of book that Romantic literary studies has needed for a very long time. Brown Romantics examines how and why poets from India, Guyana, and Australia placed themselves into conversation with authors now commonly associated with British Romanticism. The book significantly expands our understanding of canonical Romanticism's transnational reach and revises critical commonplaces that have defined Romantic aesthetics since the nineteenth century. * Papers on Language and Literature *
This book has already provided a focal point for a new direction in Romantic studies, as emerging research clusters around its central claims. There's no doubt that it will be looked back upon as a landmark work in Romantic studies. * Romantic Circles *
In calling for more sustained attention to precisely the kinds of "marginal" writers that Brown Romantics takes the time to read with care and sophistication, Chander points scholars of nineteenth-century literature toward a road less traveled, one that he shows by example-including an unusually personal "Afterword"-is worth traversing even, or perhaps especially, if we don't know in advance where it leads. * Nineteenth-Century Literature *
In aspiring for "a more global Romanticism . . . that looks beyond the Anglophone world," Brown Romantics challenges readers to rethink the play of race, religion, class, and nation across the nineteenth-century globe. * Victorian Studies *



Book Information
ISBN 9781611488234
Author Manu Samriti Chander
Format Paperback
Page Count 144
Imprint Bucknell University Press
Publisher Bucknell University Press
Weight(grams) 227g
Dimensions(mm) 223mm * 154mm * 11mm