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• 2024

  Opium

  Kitson, P., 7 May 2024, The Oxford Handbook to British Romantic Prose. Morrison, R. (ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 690-706 16 p.

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• Steam and Iron in the 1830s: Liberal Imperialism, Thomas Love Peacock, and the Nemesis

  Kitson, P. J., 2024, Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1830s. Gardiner, J. & D. S. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, p. 170-190 21 p.

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• 2023

  Britain’s Second Embassy to China: Lord Amherst’s “Special Mission” to the Jiaqing Emperor in 1816 By Caroline M. Stevenson. Canberra: Australian National University Press, 2021. pp. 404. Hardback, AUS$65.00, ISBN: 9781760464080. Ebook, open access, ISBN: 9781760464097.

  Kitson, P., Jul 2023, In: International Journal of Asian Studies. 20, 2, p. 964-967 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

• British Art and the East India Company By Geoff Quilley. The Boydell Press, 2020. 370pp. 23.4×15.6 cm. 102 colour illus. Hardback, £85.00/$125.00. ISBN: 978-1-78327-510-6. Ebook, £19.99/$24.99. ISBN: 9781760464097

  Kitson, P. J., Jan 2023, In: International Journal of Asian Studies. 20, 1, p. 263-266 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review

• 'I can not muster a fiddle': De Quincey, Lamb, Opium and Addiction

  Kitson, P., 1 Jul 2023, (Accepted/In press) The Coleridge Bulletin. Barbeau, J. (ed.). London: Friends of Coleridge, Vol. 61. p. 35-55 21 p. 3

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• 2022

  David Duff, ed. The Oxford Handbook of British Romanticism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xxi + 792. 14 illus. B&W. £110.00. ISBN 978-0-19-966089-6

  Kitson, P., 31 Oct 2022, In: BARS Bulletin. 58, 1, p. 1-4 3 p., 1.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review

• Emily Sun, On the Horizon of World Literature: Forms of Modernity in Romantic England and Republican China. New York: Fordham University Press, 2021. 176 pp. US$33.00

  Kitson, P., 2022, In: The Wordsworth Circle. 53, 4, p. 516–523 8 p.

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• 2021

  Opium and addiction in a cross-cultural context: De Quincey’s ‘Confessions’ (1821) and the Chinese novel, Romantic Illusions of the Fool of Yangzhou (Fengyue meng) (c. 1848)

  Kitson, P., 1 Sep 2021, In: Romanticism. 27, 3, p. 309-321 13 p.

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• 2020

  'A desperate traffic': John Francis Davis, China, the Opium Trade and the First Opium War

  Kitson, P., 30 May 2020, Tribute and Trade: China and Global Modernity, 1784-1935. . Christie, W. & Tong, QS. (eds.). Sydney: Sydney University Press, p. 185-206 21 p.

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• 'The wound inflicted by Poor Ellis': The Amherst Embassy of 1816, John Murray, and China

  Kitson, P., 2020, In: The Wordsworth Circle. 51, 2, p. 143-166 24 p.

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• 2019

  Romanticism and the Counterfactual Chinese Awakening

  Kitson, P., 1 Sep 2019, Counterfactual Romanticism: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century. Manchester: Manchester University Press, p. 277-299 23 p.

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• Romantic Nationalism, Thomas De Quincey and the Public Debate about the First Opium War, 1839-42

  Kitson, P., 1 Sep 2019, The Politics of Romanticism. Studien zur Englischen Romantik: Studien zur Englischen Romantik. Domsch, S. & Reinhardt, C. (eds.). Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, Vol. 22. p. 141-155 15 p. (Studien zur Englischen Romantik; vol. 22).

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• 2018

  Alan Bewell, Natures in Translation: Romanticism and Colonial Natural History (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017), pp. xvii + 393, $60.00

  Kitson, P., Nov 2018, In: Literature and History. 27, 12, p. 219-221

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• The Last War of the Romantics: De Quincey, Macaulay, the First Chinese Opium War

  Kitson, P., 1 Oct 2018, In: The Wordsworth Circle. 49, 3

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• 2017

  The Romantic Period, 1780–1832

  Kitson, P., May 2017, English Literature in Context. Poplawski, P. (ed.). 2 ed. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press

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• The ‘catastrophe of this new Chinese mission’: The Amherst Embassy to China of 1816

  Kitson, P. J., 11 Jul 2017, Early Encounters between East Asia and Europe: Telling Failures. Hertel, R. & M. K. (eds.). Routledge

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• 'Unexpected Affinities' and 'Fatal Errors': Ambiguities in the Romantic Reception of Confucius

  Kitson, P., 28 Sep 2017, Romantic Ambiguities: Abodes of the Modern: Studien zur Englischen Romantik / Studies in English Romanticism. Domsch, S., Reinfadt, C. & Rennak, K. (eds.). Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, Vol. 16. (Studien Zur Englischen Romantik).

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• 2016

  China and the Victorian Imagination: Empires Entwined. By Ross G. Forman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 318 pp. ISBN 9781107013155 (cloth)

  Kitson, P. J., Feb 2016, In: Journal of Asian Studies. 75, 1, p. 207-208 2 p.

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• Coleridge and the Armoury of the Human Mind: Essays On His Prose Writings

  Kitson, P. J. (ed.) & Corns, T. N. (ed.), 31 May 2016, 2 ed. London: Routledge. 128 p.

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• Elizabeth Bohls, Romantic Literature and Postcolonial Studies

  Kitson, P. J., 2016, In: Romanticism. 22, 3, p. 360-364 5 p.

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• Foreword

  Kitson, P. & Shakespeare, T., 1 Jan 2016, Disabling Romanticism. Bradshaw, M. (ed.). Palgrave Macmillan, p. 1-10 10 p. (Literary Disability Studies).

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• Introduction: China and the British Romantic Imagination

  Kitson, P., 2016, In: European Romantic Review. 27, 1, p. 3-7 5 p.

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• John Thelwall, The Daughter of Adoption: A Tale of Modern Times

  Kitson, P. J., 2016, In: Romanticism. 22, 3, p. 360-364 5 p.

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• Marcus Rainsford, An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti

  Kitson, P. J., 2016, In: Romanticism. 22, 3, p. 360-364 5 p.

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• Milton: the Romantics and After

  Kitson, P., Mar 2016, A New Companion to Milton. Corns, T. (ed.). 2 ed. Oxford: Wiley, p. 547-565 19 p.

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• The Dark Gift: Opium, John Francis Davis, Thomas De Quincey and the Amherst Embassy to China 1816

  Kitson, P., Sep 2016, Writing China Essays on the Amherst Embassy (1816) and Sino-British Cultural Relations. Kitson, P. J. & Markley, R. (eds.). Boydell and Brewer, (Essays and Studies).

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• Writing China: Essays on the Amherst Embassy (1816) and Sino-British Cultural Relations

  Kitson, P. (ed.) & Markley, R. (ed.), 1 Jul 2016, Boydell and Brewer. 203 p.

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• “The Kindness of my Friends in England”: Chinese Visitors to Britain in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and discourses of friendship and estrangement

  Kitson, P. J., 2016, In: European Romantic Review. 27, 1, p. 55-70 16 p.

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• 2015

  Oriental Gothic

  Kitson, P., Nov 2015, Romantic Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion . Wright, A. & Townshend, D. (eds.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, p. 167-84 18 p.

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• ‘That mighty Wall, not fabulous/ China’s stupendous mound!’ Romantic Period Accounts of China’s ‘Great Wall’

  Kitson, P., 1 Jul 2015, New Directions in Travel Writing Studies . Smethurst, P. & Kuehn, J. (eds.). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 83-96

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• 2013

  Fictions of Slave Resistance and Revolt: Robert Southey's Poems on the Slave Trade (1797) and Charlotte Smith's "The Story of Henrietta" (1800)

  Kitson, P., May 2013, Race, Romanticism and the Atlantic. Youngquist, P. (ed.). Aldersthot: Ashgate Publishing, p. 107-125 28 p. (Ashgate Series in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Studies).

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  3 Citations (Scopus)

• Forging Romantic China: Sino-British Cultural Exchange, 1760-1840

  Kitson, P., Nov 2013, Cambridge University Press. (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism; vol. 105)

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• 'Reason in China is not Reason in England': 18th-century adaptations of China by Horace Walpole and Arthur Murphy

  Kitson, P., Oct 2013, Romantic Adaptations: Essays in Mediation and Remediation. Duffy, C., Howell, P. & Ruddell, C. (eds.). Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, p. 9-22 14 p.

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• Refusing to Kowtow: Romantic-period Representations of Asian Ceremonials from Macartney to Byron

  Kitson, P., 6 Jun 2013, Coleridge, Romanticism and the Orient: Cultural Negotiations. Vallins, D., Oishi, K. & Perry, S. (eds.). Bloomsbury Academic, p. 19-38 19 p.

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• 2012

  Race

  Kitson, P., 7 Nov 2012, A Handbook of Romaticism Studies. Faflak, J. & Wright, J. M. (eds.). Oxford: Wiley

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• The Wordsworths, Opium and China

  Kitson, P. J., 2012, In: The Wordsworth Circle. 43, 1, p. 2-12 11 p.

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  10 Citations (Scopus)
• 2011

  Mapping the Current Critical Landscape

  Kitson, P., 10 Mar 2011, The Romanticism Handbook. Faflak, J. & Chaplin, S. (eds.). New York: Continuum

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• Robert Southey and the Romantic Failure of China

  Kitson, P. J., 2011, In: The Wordsworth Circle. 42, iv, p. 77-85

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• The Strange Case of Dr White and Mr De Quincey: Manchester, medicine and Romantic theories of biological racism

  Kitson, P., 2011, In: Romanticism. 17, 3, p. 278-287 10 p.

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  3 Citations (Scopus)
• 2010

  Coleridge's Bristol and West Country Radicalism

  Kitson, P. J., May 2010, English Romantic Writers and the West Country. Roe, N. (ed.). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 115-128 14 p.

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• John Thelwall in Saint Domingue: Race, Salvery and Desire in The Daughter Adoption: A Tale of Modern Times (1801)

  Kitson, P., 2010, In: Romanticism. 16, 1, p. 120-138 18 p.

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• Romantic Explorations of China

  Kitson, P., 2010, Romantic Explorations. Selected Papers from the Koblenz Conference of the German Society for English Romanticism. Meyer, M. (ed.). Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, p. 119-136 18 p. (Studien zur Englischen Romantik; vol. 8).

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• 2009

  Bales of Living Anguish: Representations of Race and the Slave in Romantic Writing

  Kitson, P., 2009, L'abolition de l'esclavage au Royaume-Uni 1787-1840 : débats et dissensions. Finding, S. (ed.). Paris: Armand Colin

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• Coleridge's Lectures 1795: On Politics and Religion

  Kitson, P., 26 Mar 2009, The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Burwick, F. (ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 127-142 16 p.

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• 2008

  Romantic Literature, Race, and Colonial Encounter

  Kitson, P., 11 Mar 2008, Palgrave Macmillan. 280 p. (Nineteenth Century Major Lives and Letters)

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• 2007

  Byron and Post-Colonial Criticism: the Eastern Tales

  Kitson, P., 2007, Byron Studies. Stabler, J. (ed.). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 106-130 (Palgrave Advances).

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• Debating China: Romantic Fictions of the Qing Empire, 1779-1830

  Kitson, P., 17 Apr 2007, Romanticism's Debatable Lands. Lamont, C. & Rossington, M. (eds.). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 211-223 13 p.

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• Slavery and the Cultures of Abolition: Essays Marking the Bicentennial of the British Abolition Act of 1807 (Essays & Studies)

  Kitson, P. (ed.) & Carey, B. (ed.), 16 Aug 2007, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer. 256 p.

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• The Romantic Period

  Kitson, P., 2007, English Literature in Context. Poplawski, P. (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 307-402 95 p.

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• 2006

  Coleridge as Political Thinker

  Kitson, P., May 2006, The Cambridge Companion to Coleridge. Newlyn, L. (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 156-169 13 p. (The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Classics).

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