Romantic Writing and Pedestrian Travel (Hardcover)

Arguing that much Romantic literature had its source in the popularization of recreational walking in the last quarter of the 18th century, author Robin Jarvis discusses the impact of this cultural revolution on the creativity of major Romantic writers, such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, and others. Jarvis suggests an alternative Romanticism grounded in the experience of the body in motion.