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The act of walking has long been seen as a vital constituent of the Romantic sensibility: literary and cultural history suggests that this quotidian and ostensibly prosaic activity functions in a much more profound and creative way during the Romantic era than in any other. However, it has only been since the publication of Jeffrey C. Robinson’s seminal study The Walk: Notes on a Romantic Image in 1989 that the academy has begun to address the concept of pedestrian travel as a vital issue in its own right. Recent publications include Anne Wallace’s Walking, Literature and English Culture, Robin Jarvis’s Romantic Writing and Pedestrian Travel and Rebecca Solnit’s Wanderlust: A History of Walking, and the aim of this conference is to further explore the theme of Romantic walking, and investigate some hitherto untraveled paths.