Helen Maria Williams’s Peru and the Spanish Legacy of the British Empire

Abstract

As the chapters in this book attest, romantic-era studies remain deeply invested in interrogating the various ‘global crossings’ of early nineteenth-century British literature. Current work on British romantic imperialism, transatlantic romanticisms, as well as increasing attention to travel writing, translation, and other transnational encounters have created new critical perspectives for reassessing early nineteenth-century British literature as explicitly international and global in its concerns rather than isolated and insular.