Grounded in historical sources and informed by recent work in cultural, sociological, geographical and spatial studies, Romantic Geography illuminates the nexus between imaginative literature and geography in William Wordsworth's poetry and prose. It shows that eighteenth-century social and political interest groups contested spaces through maps, geographical commentaries and travel literature; and that by configuring 'utopian' landscapes Wordsworth himself participated in major social and political controversies in post-French Revolutionary England.

MICHAEL WILEY is Lecturer in English at DePaul University in Chicago, USA.

List of Plates Acknowledgements Wordsworth's Charting Utopia: An Introduction From Dystopia to Utopia Narrative and Lyrical Geographies Naming New Worlds A 'Scanty Plot of Ground': The 1802 Sonnets Abandoning Utopia Conclusion Notes Index