Sounding Imperial: Poetic Voice and the Politics of Empire, 1730-1820

by James Mulholland

Book Overview

Spoken words come alive in written verse.

In Sounding Imperial, James Mulholland offers a new 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 foreign speakers, Mulholland uncovers an innovative global aesthetics of poetic voice that arose as authors invented...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421408546
• ISBN13: 9781421408545
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.1"