Literature and the growth of British nationalism
Subtitle: the influence of Rromantic poetry and bardic criticism
By: Francesco Crocco
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Jefferson, North Carolina
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780786478477; 9781476616001
Subjects: English poetry; History and criticism; Romanticism; National characteristics, English, in literature
Description: "This book offers a new reading of major works by Romantic poets from Wordsworth and Coleridge to Felicia Hemans and Anna Letitia Barbauld, illuminating the ways they corroborated the public image of poets as bona fide national bards and advanced British nationalism, even when they intentionally set out to oppose or reform the politics of state"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-239) and index.
Table of contents: title: Bardic criticism, the canon and the invention of the poet-bard; title: Wordsworth's bardic poetics in the lyrical ballads; title: Wordsworth and class (un)consciousness; title: Coleridge, religious nationalism and the anxiety of empire; title: Patriot women and the future of empire; title: Conclusion: William Blake's prophecies and the limits of nationalism.