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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.

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Strabone ... has a talent for throwing out big ideas that are useful to think with. ... Strabone's readings of 'Kubla Khan', in which the poet's vision becomes a literary-historical allegory about the development of European poetry, and 'Christabel', in which Strabone scans Coleridge's lines to find supposedly archaic feet, are genuinely exciting: they should secure Coleridge the bardic credentials long-ago awarded to Wordsworth. (Rhys Kaminski-Jones, The Review of English Studies, Vol. 70 (296), September, 2019) There is much of real value here which will help to move the discipline forward, and when he is dealing with material that can be thoroughly researched alone by an anglophone scholar, Strabone's work is often dependable, incisive and original. (Rhys Kaminski-Jones, The Review of English Studies, June 01, 2019)

There is much of real value here which will help to move the discipline forward, and when he is dealing with material that can be thoroughly researched alone by an anglophone scholar, Strabone's work is often dependable, incisive and original. (Rhys Kaminski-Jones, The Review of English Studies, June 01, 2019)

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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.

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