Romantic Revisions in Novels from the Americas

Why are twentieth-century novelists from former British colonies in the Americas preoccupied with British Romantic poetry? In Romantic Revisions , Lauren Rule Maxwell examines five novels—Kincaid's Lucy , Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale , McCarthy's Blood Meridian , Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby , and Harris's Palace of the Peacock —that contain crucial scenes engaging British Romantic poetry. Each work adapts figures from British Romantic poetry and translates them into an American context. Kincai