Bardic nationalism : the romantic novel and the British Empire

Bardic nationalism : the romantic novel and the British Empire / Katie Trumpener.

This magisterial work links the literary and intellectual history of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Britain's overseas colonies during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to redraw our picture of the origins of cultural nationalism, the lineages of the novel, and the literary hi...

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Main Author: Trumpener, Katie, 1961-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1997.
Series:Literature in history (Princeton, N.J.)
Subjects:
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Nationalism and literature > Great Britain > Colonies > History.
English fiction > 18th century > History and criticism.
Nationalism and literature > Great Britain > History.
Bards and bardism in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Colonies in literature.
Romanticism.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Harps Hung upon the Willow
  • Ch. 1. The Bog Itself: Enlightenment Prospects and National Elegies
  • Ch. 2. The End of an Auld Sang: Oral Tradition and Literary History
  • Ch. 3. National Character, Nationalist Plots: National Tale and Historical Novel in the Age of Waverley, 1806-1830
  • Ch. 4. Coming Home: Imperial and Domestic Fiction, 1790-1815
  • Ch. 5. The Old Wives' Tale: The Fostering System as National and Imperial Education
  • Ch. 6. The Abbotsford Guide to India: Romantic Fictions of Empire and the Narratives of Canadian Literature.

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