Bloody Romanticism

Spectacular Violence and the Politics of Representation, 1776-1832
2006
ISBN: 978-1-4039-4282-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 494 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print

This book studies the impact of violence on the writing of the Romantic period. The focus is on the response of writers to a series of violent events including the revolutions in America and France and the Irish rebellion of 1798. Authors covered include Coleridge, Wordsworth, Scott, Byron, Fennimore Cooper, Equiano, and Helen Maria Williams.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Haywood, I.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Romantic Agonies 'Beneath the bloody scourge laid bare the man': Slavery and Violence 'Disturbed imagination': The French Revolution 'The most distressful country': The Irish Rebellion of 1798 American 'savagery' Unruly People: The Spectacular Riot Notes Index

Über Autor(innen)

IAN HAYWOOD is Reader in English at Roehampton University, London, UK. His publications include (2004), (1998), co-edited with Zachary Leader, and numerous articles and essays on Nineteenth-century radical politics and literature.