Bardic nationalism
Subtitle: the romantic novel and the British Empire
By: Katie Trumpener.
Series: Literature in history; Literature in history (Princeton, N.J.)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 426
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.
Description: 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."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-410) and index.