Poetry and British Nationalisms in the Bardic Eighteenth Century : Imagined Antiquities

Jeff Strabone

ISBN 10: 3319952544 / ISBN 13: 9783319952543

Editore: Springer International Publishing, 2018

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Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 368 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher. Codice articolo 29398530/1

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Titolo: Poetry and British Nationalisms in the ...

Casa editrice: Springer International Publishing

Data di pubblicazione: 2018

Legatura: Rilegato

Condizione: Hervorragend

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Riassunto:

This book offers a radical new theory of the role of poetry in the rise of cultural nationalism. With equal attention to England, Scotland, and Wales, the book takes an Archipelagic approach to the study of poetics, print media, and medievalism in the rise of British Romanticism. It tells the story of how poets and antiquarian editors in the British nations rediscovered forgotten archaic poetic texts and repurposed them as the foundation of a new concept of the nation, now imagined as a primarily cultural formation. It also draws on legal and ecclesiastical history in drawing a sharp contrast between early modern and Romantic antiquarianisms. Equally a work of literary criticism and history, the book offers provocative new theorizations of nationalism and Romanticism and new readings of major British poets, including Allan Ramsay, Thomas Gray, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

L'autore:

Jeff Strabone is Associate Professor of English at Connecticut College, USA, where he teaches the eighteenth century, British Romanticism, and African fiction. He received his PhD from New York University, USA.