Bardic Nationalism: The Romantic Novel and the British EmpireThis 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