and cultural nationalism illuminated by electronic media 239, 244 influenced by Orientalism 185–90 and literary studies and media developments 257 mediation 246 oral transmission 243 and orality 244, 247 publishing 240 in relation to reading 244 relationship with sexuality and gender 156 in Byron and Wordsworth’s works 158 and remediation 242 sexual frankness 167 theme of nostalgia 204 understandings of 243 unearthly lovers as sexual ideals 168–72 as “unmediated vision” 240 See also poetry Romantic poets, standing in the canon of English poetry 264