Travel, Migration, Exile

International journals such as La questione Romantica and the European Romantic Review have long promoted the crossing and erasure of national boundaries to create a genuinely European Romanticism. Recent scholarship on international cultural exchanges, literary collaboration, and social networks has further promoted the diversification of Romantic studies. Increasingly, new research on transnational Romantic cultures shows a mutually enriching dialogue with the expanding field of critical Refugee Studies. This special issue of La questione Romantica aims to consolidate these gains by showcasing new research on the international movement of people in the long Romantic period, and to consider resonances between the Romantic era and contemporary phenomena of migration and expatriation, especially the European refugee crisis of the 21st century.