In Nominative^x, Literature^x

I don't. Once in a great while maybe. But I do see it fairly often in literature -- Dickens, Hardy, or Melville, perhaps. Sometimes they even leave out the participle! The dinner ready, everyone sat down to eat. The chairman at the podium, a hush descended upon the assembly. The tiger...

As to this, I'd like to put my two cents. When English retained cases explicitly, the subject noun and the complement noun linked by a linking verb were both in nominative cases. So, "I " in the normal word order. However, in Old English, inversion easily took place between the subject and the...