Sounding Imperial

James Mulholland is an assistant professor of English at North Carolina State University.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Global Aesthetics of Poetic Voice1. Thomas Gray, Virtual Authorship, and the Performed VoiceAuthoring Gray's "Elegy"Performing Gray's "Elegy"Impersonating the Bard?Wildness and Welsh ProsodyQuotation Marks(Un)Editing the Bards2. Wales, Public Poetry, and the Politics of Collective VoiceBardic Nationalism ReconsideredThe Aboriginal Aesthetics of Iolo MorganwgListening to the Welsh PastDead Voices Reanimated3. Scotland and the Invention of VoicePrimitive Passions, Poetry Addiction, HistoryAmbiguous SpeechWriting, Re- performance, and Restored VoicesIntimate HailingOssian's Afterlife4. Impersonating Native Voices in Anglo- Indian PoetryWilliam Jones and the Fountainhead of VerseMaking the Subaltern SpeakRewriting Gray's "The Bard" in IndiaDislocated OrientalismCoda: Reading the Archive of the InauthenticNotesBibliographyIndex

This is an excellent book, and one that will appeal not just to lovers of poetry but to historians of the Empire and sociologists who study trans-national influences. -- Clifford Cunningham Sun News Miami Sounding Imperial is a very readable book. It will be mainly of interest to students and scholars of English literature and history. -- Sadhana Naithani Journal of Folklore Research James Mulholland has produced an important new study of eighteenth-century British poetry... -- Evan Gottlieb Review of English Studies James Mulholland's Sounding Imperial: Poetic Voice and the Politics of Empire, 1730-1820 brings the context of British imperialism to Romantic-era poetics, illuminating the concerns of orientalism within the history of print culture. -- Adela Pinch Studies in English Literature What Sounding Imperial tells us about colonialism and culture is that we need to look again at their relationship with fresh eyes. Eighteenth-Century Life