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This study argues that nationalism is concerned not only withrelations and differences between rival nations, but is alsorelated to questions of class, power, and representation withinnations. It explores the development of a conservative form ofnationalism in England which, fol…

This thesis proposes two distinct but connected ideas: that John Keats’s idiom of friendship was haunted by “sequestered” longings and that he ultimately valued specific, one-on-one partnerships as a basis for his poetical character. The Introduction places the thesis within its…

My research recovers the background for understanding poetic sound, both as it appeared in theory—that is, in physiology and philosophy of mind—and as it occurred in practice in scenes of recitation and audition during the Romantic period. This background reveals William Wordswo…