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Contents: Introduction, Evan Gottlieb and Juliet Shields Part 1 From Local to National: 'Really a sweet town': laying the scene locally in Restoration drama, Bridget Orr What's British about The British Recluse? The political geography of early 18th-century fiction, Juliet Shields Local languages: obscurity and open secrets in Scots vernacular poetry, Janet Sorensen At home in the churchyard: graves, localism, and literary heritage in the prose pastoral, Paul Westover. Part 2 From National to Global: No place like home: from local to global (and back again) in the Gothic novel, Evan Gottlieb Resisting the 'democratic spirit': English Catholicism and the Cisalpine movement, Scott M. Cleary Connecting 18th-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: 'Usurpt by Cyclops': rivers, industry, and environment in 18th-century poetry, Penny Fielding Local poetry in the Midlands: Francis Mundy's Needwood Forest and Anna Seward's Lichfield poems, JoEllen DeLucia Homes and haunts: Austen's and Mitford's English idylls, Deidre Lynch Coda: knowing your place, Dafydd Moore Works cited Index.

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