Wales, Romanticism, and the Making of Imperial Culture

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Timothy Heimlich (Duke University, North Carolina)

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English

Cambridge University Press
22 January 2026

Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 ; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Colonialism & imperialism; Nationalism

Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism

At the beginning of the long eighteenth century, the adjective 'British' primarily meant Welsh, in a narrow and exclusive sense. As the nation and the empire expanded, so too did Britishness come to name a far more diffuse identity. In parallel with this transformation, writers sought to invent a new British literary tradition. Timothy Heimlich demonstrates that these developments were more interrelated than scholars have yet realized, revealing how Wales was both integral to and elided from Britishness at the same historical moment that it was becoming a vitally important cultural category. Critically re-examining the role of nationalism in the development of colonized identities and complicating the core-periphery binary, he sheds new light on longstanding critical debates about internal colonialism and its relationship to the project of empire-building abroad.

By: Timothy Heimlich (Duke University North Carolina)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Weight: 630g
ISBN: 9781009618878
ISBN 10: 1009618873
Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 22 January 2026
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: reinventing Britishness; 1. Wales and the imperial Gaze, 1726–1800; 2. Ancient Britons and ancient Britains: writing British history, 1723–1803; 3. The Colonial heartland: the double role of Wales in 1780s fiction; 4. The other within: racializing Welshness, 1790–1799; 5. 'A perfect Potosi': Wales and imperial Britishness in the Romantic national novel; Conclusion: Wordsworth and Wales; Notes; Works cited.

Timothy Heimlich is Assistant Professor of Long Eighteenth-Century Literature in English at Utrecht University. Previously, he taught at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Cambridge. He has published articles in several venues, including English Literary History, Modern Language Quarterly, Studies in Romanticism, and European Romantic Review.