Bringing together leading scholars from the USA UK and Europe this is the first substantial study of the seminal influence of JeanJacques Rousseau on British Romanticism.Reconsidering Rousseaus connection to canonical Romantic authors such as Wordsworth Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley JeanJacques Rousseau and British Romanticism also explores his impact on a wide range of literature including antiJacobin fiction educational works familiar essays nature writing and political discourse. Convincingly demonstrating that the relationship between Rousseaus thought and British Romanticism goes beyond mere reception or influence to encompass complex forms of connection transmission and appropriation JeanJacques Rousseau and British Romanticism is a vital new contribution to scholarly understanding of British Romantic literature and its transnational contexts.