Creditable Warriors

Discussing the period from the impact of Reform to the rise of Disraelian imperialism, this volume assesses writers' relations to British expansionism and the alternative of a growing Europeanism. Among the topics considered are the re-evaluation of Romantic responses to foreign travel; the search abroad for 'civic images' to oppose to industrialism; fiction and expansionism; the Europeanness of mid-Victorian poetry; the rise of middle-class tourism; the fascination of Italy and the Levant; and relations with America and Ireland.