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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." During the late eighteenth century, antiquaries in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales answered modernization and anglicization initiatives with nationalist arguments for cultural preservation. Responding in particular to Enlightenment dismissals of Gaelic oral traditions, they reconceived national and literary history under the sign of the bard. Their pathbreaking models of national and literary history, their new way of reading national landscapes, and their debates about tradition and cultural transmission shaped a succession of new novelistic genres, from Gothic and sentimental fiction to the national tale and the historical novel. In Ireland and Scotland, these genres were used to mount nationalist arguments for cultural specificity and against "internal colonization." Yet once exported throughout the nascent British empire, they also formed the basis of the first colonial fiction of Canada, Australia, and British India, used not only to attack imperialism but to justify the imperial project. Literary forms intended to shore up national memory paradoxically become the means of buttressing imperial ideology and enforcing imperial amnesia.

Barden in de literatuur --- Bardes dans la littérature --- Bards and bardism in literature --- Colonies dans la littérature --- Colonies in literature --- Imperialism in literature --- Imperialisme in de literatuur --- Impérialisme dans la littérature --- Koloniale literatuur --- Kolonies in de literatuur --- Littérature coloniale --- Littérature postcoloniale --- Postkoloniale literatuur --- Romanticism --- Romantiek --- Romantisme --- Bards and bardism in literature. --- Colonies in literature. --- English fiction --- Imperialism in literature. --- Nationalism and literature --- Romanticism. --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Pseudo-romanticism --- Romanticism in literature --- Aesthetics --- Fiction --- Literary movements --- Literature and nationalism --- Literature --- History and criticism --- History --- 19th century --- 18th century --- Great Britain --- Colonies --- Nationalism and literature - Great Britain - Colonies - History. --- Nationalism and literature - Great Britain - History. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. --- Abbotsford. --- Antigua. --- Australia. --- Belfast. --- Black Islands. --- Bog of Allen. --- British Columbia. --- Carolan. --- Ceylon. --- Crawford, Robert. --- Cullen, Fintan. --- Daiches, David. --- Darwin, Charles. --- Davis, Thomas. --- Deane, Seamus. --- Diderot, Denis. --- Edinburgh. --- Erse. --- Fleischman, Avrom. --- Fox, Christopher. --- Gaelic. --- Gallie, Andrew. --- Gaskell, Elizabeth. --- Glasgow. --- Goody, Jack. --- Green, Martin. --- Habermas, Jürgen. --- Heaney, Seamus. --- Herculaneum. --- Hindustan. --- Hughes, Kathryn. --- India Act. --- Inverness. --- Jacobinism. --- Java. --- Kenilworth. --- Kirkham, Margaret. --- Langton, Anne. --- Lee, Ronald. --- Lewis, Aneirin. --- Londonderry. --- Macphail, Andrew. --- Malaya. --- McHugh, Roger. --- abolitionism. --- abolitionist fiction. --- absenteeism. --- annal. --- ballad. --- bards. --- cannibalism. --- chronotope. --- clearances. --- emigration. --- feminism. --- governess-trade. --- harpers. --- improvement.