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According to Michel Foucault, we live in an "epoch of space", 1 in which cultural constructions of space, both actual sites and medialised evocations of places, play a defining role for both our lives and our sense of ourselves. Whereas this is debatable as a general characterisation of the modern condition, 'space' has undoubtedly become one of the key concepts of contemporary culture. The humanities in general are said by some to have taken a spatial turn, 2 both shaped by and shaping the immense field of postcolonial studies, which in turn has exerted considerable influence on Romantic studies. The two books under scrutiny here can be seen as part of this study of a spatialised Romanticism. 3 Spatiality, it must be admitted, is a pretty general common denominator, but the two volumes, while being otherwise quite different from one another, share a keen interest in the spaces where British Romanticism found its identity and where its ideology was put into practice. besprechungen 380 1 Michel Foucault, "Of Other Spaces", Diacritics 16 (1986): 22-27; 22. Deirdre Coleman refers to the notion of 'heterotopia' developed in this essay (according to Foucault "countersites, a kind of eff

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Author

Kai Merten

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Published

2007

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)