1st Edition
Romantic Wars Studies in Culture and Conflict, 1793�1822
Edited By Philip Shaw
Copyright 2000
246 Pages
by
Routledge
246 Pages
by
Routledge
246 Pages
by
Routledge
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Romantic Wars is a collection of eight specially commissioned essays focusing on the relations between British Romantic culture (poetry, fiction, painting, and non-fictional prose) and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Whilst in recent years much attention has been paid to the influence of the French Revolution on British Romanticism, comparatively little has been written about the effects of... Read more
Contents; Introduction, Philip Shaw; ’A few harmless Numbers’: British women poets and the climate of war, 1793-1815, Stephen C. Behrendt; The exiled self: images of war in Charlotte Smith’s ’The emigrants’, Jacqueline M. Labbe; The harsh delights of political duty: Thelwall, Coleridge, Wordsworth, 1795-99, David Collings; Duty and mutiny: the aesthetics of loyalty and the representation of the British sailor c. 1798-1800, Geoff Quilley; Invasion! Coleridge, the defence of Britain and the cultivation of the public’s fear, Mark Rawlinson; War romances, historical analogies and Coleridge’s Letter’s on the Spaniards, Diego Saglia; ’Of war and taking towns’: Byron’s siege poems, Simon Bainbridge; Leigh Hunt and the aesthetics of post-war liberalism, Philip Shaw; Marriage at the end of war, Eric C. Walker; Index.
Biography
Philip Shaw is Lecturer in English at the University of Leicester.
'This is an excellent book, which will take its place as a critical touchstone for scholars investigating its broad subject... This volume demonstrates clearly and emphatically the multiple benefits of the academic symposium: it is well-conceived, intellectually of a piece though by no means uniform, and it gathers together a wealth of expertise.' Literature & History '... these essays offer a satisfyingly open-ended view of the internalised and textualised battles which superseded the literal battlefield of Waterloo, and all complicate productively the reader's impression of the writers and their politics.' BARS Bulletin
