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.