Chapter 1 THE BOG ITSELF: ENLIGHTENMENT PROSPECTS AND NATIONAL ELEGIES

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ILLUSTRATIONS ix
4. PREFACE xi
5. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xvii
6. INTRODUCTION Harps Hung upon the Willow 1
7. PART ONE: Enlightenment and Nationalist Surveys
8. Chapter 1 THE BOG ITSELF: ENLIGHTENMENT PROSPECTS AND NATIONAL ELEGIES 35
9. Chapter 2 THE END OF AN AULD SANG: ORAL TRADITION AND LITERARY HISTORY 67
10. Chapter 3 NATIONAL CHARACTER, NATIONALIST PLOTS: NATIONAL TALE AND HISTORICAL NOVEL IN THE AGE OF WAVERLEY, 1806-1830 128
11. PART TWO: National Memory, Imperial Amnesia
12. Chapter 4 COMING HOME: IMPERIAL AND DOMESTIC FICTION, 1790-1815 159
13. Chapter 5 THE OLD WIVES' TALE: THE FOSTERING SYSTEM AS NATIONAL AND IMPERIAL EDUCATION 193
14. Chapter 6 THE ABBOTSFORD GUIDE TO INDIA: ROMANTIC FICTIONS OF EMPIRE AND THE NARRATIVES OF CANADIAN LITERATURE 242
15. NOTES 293
16. SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 367
17. INDEX 411