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Bardic nationalism : the romantic novel and the British Empire

Title
Bardic nationalism : the romantic novel and the British Empire / Katie Trumpener.
Author
Trumpener, Katie, 1961-
Publication
Princeton : Princeton University Press, [1997], ©1997.

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Description
xviii, 426 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Summary
  • 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 history of the English-speaking world.
  • Katie Trumpener recovers and recontextualizes a vast body of fiction to describe the history of the novel during a period of formal experimentation and political engagement, between its eighteenth-century "rise" and its Victorian "heyday."
Series Statement
Literature in history
Uniform Title
Literature in history (Princeton, N.J.)
Subject
  • English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
  • Nationalism and literature > Great Britain > History
  • English fiction > 18th century > History and criticism
  • Bards and bardism in literature
  • Imperialism in literature
  • Colonies in literature
  • Romanticism
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-410) and index.
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.
ISBN
  • 0691044813 (alk. paper)
  • 0691044805 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
96039166
OCLC
ocm35770850
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries