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Title Romantic wars : studies in culture and conflict, 1793-1822 / edited by Philip Shaw.

Publication Info. London : Routledge, 2017.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 233 pages) : illustrations, portraits.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Nineteenth century
Nineteenth century (Aldershot, England)
Note Originally published 2000 by Ashgate Publishing.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "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 war. This book takes, as its central thesis, the idea that Romanticism is facilitated and conditioned by a culture of hostility. Whether this is manifested in Blakean visions of 'mental warfare', or in socio-historical reflections on the links between conflict and nationhood, the essays in this volume seek to correct a prevailing assumption that the culture of this period is unaffected by discourses of violence. Through a combination of individual case studies - detailed readings of warfare in Coleridge, Byron, Charlotte Smith and Austen - and wider-ranging survey discussions, including essays on the representation of the British sailor and war poetry by women, the book provides a timely reflection on the texts and contexts of the first 'Great War'. The book is aimed at literary specialists and historians working in the areas of Romanticism and European history. It will also appeal to general readers with an interest in early nineteenth-century writing and British culture."--Provided by publisher.
Contents Chapter 1 Introduction / Philip Shaw -- chapter 2 'A few harmless Numbers': British women poets and the climate of war, 1793-1815 -- chapter 3 The exiled self: images of war in Charlotte Smith's The Emigrants' -- chapter 4 The harsh delights of political duty: Thelwall, Coleridge, Wordsworth, 1795-99 -- chapter 5 Duty and mutiny: the aesthetics of loyalty and the representation of the British sailor c. 1798-1800 -- chapter 6 Invasion! Coleridge, the defence of Britain and the cultivation of the public's fear -- chapter 7 War romances, historical analogies and Coleridge's Letters on the Spaniards -- chapter 8 'Of war and taking towns': Byron's siege poems / Simon Bainbridge -- chapter 9 Leigh Hunt and the aesthetics of post-war liberalism / Philip Shaw -- chapter 10 Marriage and the end of war / Eric C. Walker.
Access Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK). WlAbNL
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Subject English literature -- French influences.
English literature -- French influences.
Romanticism -- France.
Romanticism.
France.
War in literature.
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815.
Napoleonic Wars (1800-1815)
War in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Chronological Term 1800-1815
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Shaw, Philip, 1965- editor.
Other Form: 0-367-88815-7
1-84014-266-9
ISBN 9781351902441 (electronic book)
135190244X (electronic book)
9781315243900 (electronic book)
1315243903 (electronic book)
9781840142662
1351902458
9781351902458
Standard No. 10.4324/9781315243900