Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Global Aesthetics of Poetic Voice
  • 1. Thomas Gray, Virtual Authorship, and the Performed Voice
  • Authoring Grayâ€?s “Elegyâ€?
  • Performing Grayâ€?s “Elegyâ€?
  • Impersonating the Bard?
  • Wildness and Welsh Prosody
  • Quotation Marks
  • (Un)Editing the Bards
  • 2. Wales, Public Poetry, and the Politics of Collective Voice
  • Bardic Nationalism Reconsidered
  • The Aboriginal Aesthetics of Iolo Morganwg
  • Listening to the Welsh Past
  • Dead Voices Reanimated.
  • 3. Scotland and the Invention of VoicePrimitive Passions, Poetry Addiction, History
  • Ambiguous Speech
  • Writing, Re-performance, and Restored Voices
  • Intimate Hailing
  • Ossianâ€?s Afterlife
  • 4. Impersonating Native Voices in Anglo-Indian Poetry
  • William Jones and the Fountainhead of Verse
  • Making the Subaltern Speak
  • Rewriting Grayâ€?s “The Bardâ€? in India
  • Dislocated Orientalism
  • Coda: Reading the Archive of the Inauthentic
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K.
  • LM
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • Q
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • V
  • W
  • Z.