Introduction: imagining the continent -- Hybrid gardens: nationalization of taste, travel writing, and Ann Radcliffe's Continental landscape -- The occidentalist costume: Lord Byron and travelers' perspectives on Eastern Europe -- From the prison of the nation: tourism, Anglo-Italian dialogue, and mid-Victorian remapping of Italy -- The mirror image: British travel writing and Bram Stoker's Eastern Europe colonial discourse and the mapping of Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth century -- Postscript "dense Westerners" and persistent peripheries: Edwardian fictions of Europe and beyond.