Ingrid Horrocks completed a doctorate at Princeton University, New Jersey, before taking up a job at Massey University, Wellington. She has been a Commonwealth Scholar and in 2009 she was awarded a prestigious Marsden Fast-Start Award by the Royal Society of New Zealand. She is the author of a travel book as well as of articles published in journals including Studies in Travel Writing, Studies in Romanticism, and English Literary History (ELH). She is also the editor of an edition of Mary Wollstonecraft's only travel book, co-editor of an edition of Charlotte Smith's poems, and the author of the pre-1840 chapter of A History of New Zealand Literature (2016).
Introduction: reluctant wanderers
1. 'Circling eye' to 'houseless stranger': the shifting landscape of the long poem
2. The desolations of wandering: Charlotte Smith's Elegiac Sonnets
3. 'The irresistible force of circumstances': the poetics of wandering in Radcliffean Gothic
4. 'Take, o world! thy much indebted tear!': Mary Wollstonecraft travels
5. 'No motive of choice': Frances Burney and the wandering novel
Coda: 'He could afford to suffer': losses and gains.
