Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-223) and index.
Contents:
Nationality, individuality, and defamiliarization -- The line of progress: Blake's Laocoön and classicist theories of art -- "Whence came they": contesting national narrative -- "How different the world to them": revolutionary heterogeneity and alienation -- "And none shall gather the leaves": unbinding the voice in America and Europe -- "A state about to be created": modeling the nation in Milton -- "Artfully propagated": hybridity, disease, and the transformation of the body politic.
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