Surveying the literary and cultural landscapes of the long eighteenth century, this collection examines the many locales that shaped Britons' affiliations and identities. Essays on individual authors, a variety of literary genres, and diverse cultural practices, demonstrate how representations of place from the Restoration through the Romantic era enabled British authors to articulate distinct but interrelated local, national and transnational identities and communities.

Evan Gottlieb is Associate Professor of English at Oregon State University, USA, and Juliet Shields is Associate Professor of English at the University of Washington, USA.

Introduction, Evan Gottlieb, Juliet Shields; Part 1 From Local to National; Chapter 1 "Really a sweet town": Laying the Scene Locally in Restoration Drama, Bridget Orr; Chapter 2 What's British about The British Recluse ? The Political Geography of Early Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Juliet Shields; Chapter 3 Local Languages: Obscurity and Open Secrets in Scots Vernacular Poetry, Janet Sorensen; Chapter 4 At Home in the Churchyard: Graves, Localism, and Literary Heritage in the Prose Pastoral, Paul Westover; Part 2 From National to Global; Chapter 5 No Place Like Home: From Local to Global (and Back Again) in the Gothic Novel, Evan Gottlieb; Chapter 6 Resisting the "Democratic Spirit": English Catholicism and the Cisalpine Movement, Scott M. Cleary; Chapter 7 Connecting Eighteenth-Century India: Orientalism, Della Cruscanism, and the Translocal Poetics of William and Anna Maria Jones, James Mulholland; Part 3 Romanticism and the Return to the Local; Chapter 8 "Usurpt by Cyclops": Rivers, Industry, and Environment in Eighteenth-Century Poetry, Penny Fielding; Chapter 9 Local Poetry in the Midlands: Francis Mundy's Needwood Forest and Anna Seward's Lichfield Poems, JoEllent DeLucia; Chapter 10 Homes and Haunts: Austen's and Mitford's English Idylls, Deidre Lynch; Knowing Your Place, Dafydd Moore;