Catachthonic Romanticism: Buried History, Deep Ruins

This article considers Romanticism in terms of racial migration and history, seventeenth-century political theory, Whig cultural identity, legitimacy, and commerce. By examining uses of race, heritage, and region I will explain how antiquarian historical theories are incorporated into developing not...

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Published inRomanticism (Edinburgh) Vol. 24; no. 2; pp. 118 - 133
Main Author Groom, Nick
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published UK Edinburgh University Press 01.07.2018
Subjects
17th century
Cultural heritage
Cultural identity
Literary Studies
Migration
Race
Regions
Romantic period
legitimacy
antiquarianism
archipelagic thinking
national identity
spatialities
Thomas Chatterton
historicity
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Summary:This article considers Romanticism in terms of racial migration and history, seventeenth-century political theory, Whig cultural identity, legitimacy, and commerce. By examining uses of race, heritage, and region I will explain how antiquarian historical theories are incorporated into developing notions of cultural identity. In particular, this approach adds a temporal dimension to the spatialities of archipelagic thinking: historicizing archipelagic understanding to develop a catachthonic approach that analyses the historicity of historiographical theories of nationality and identity, effectively through a doubled, or subterranean, history.
ISSN:1354-991X
1750-0192
DOI:10.3366/rom.2018.0366