Sounding imperial : poetic voice and the politics of empire, 1730-1820 /
Spoken words come alive in written verse. In this book, the author offers an assessment of the origins, evolution, and importance of poetic voice in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. By examining a series of literary experiments in which authors imitated oral voices and impersonated for...
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Baltimore :
The Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2012]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : The Global Aesthetics of Poetic Voice
- Thomas Gray, Virtual Authorship, and the Performed Voice. Authoring Gray's "Elegy" ; Performing Gray's "Elegy" ; Impersonating the Bard? ; Wildness and Welsh Prosody ; Quotation Marks ; (Un)Editing the Bards
- Wales, Public Poetry, and the Politics of Collective Voice. Bardic Nationalism Reconsidered ; The Aboriginal Aesthetics of Iolo Morganwg ; Listening to the Welsh Past ; Dead Voices Reanimated
- Scotland and the Invention of Voice. Primitive Passions, Poetry Addiction, History ; Ambiguous Speech ; Writing, Re-performance, and Restored Voices ; Intimate Hailing ; Ossian's Afterlife
- Impersonating Native Voices in Anglo-Indian Poetry. William Jones and the Fountainhead of Verse ; Making the Subaltern Speak ; Rewriting Gray's "The Bard" in India ; Dislocated Orientalism
- Coda : Reading the Archive of the Inauthentic.