Waterloo and the Romantic Imagination

2002. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-333-99435-1
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 211 mm, Gewicht: 540 g

Waterloo and the Romantic Imagination offers a new and challenging look at the cultural significance of the Battle of Waterloo, and the impact it had on British Romantic culture. Drawing on a range of approaches it aims to redefine the Romantic period as an age of inter- and intra-national conflict, thus overturning conventional notions of 'The Romantic Project', and re-writing the period from first principles. Topics covered include: the impact of Waterloo on Romantic ideas of individual and national identity, the representation of the dead and wounded in poetry, painting and prose, the work of canonical and non-canonical poets.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shaw, Philip

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Introduction: The Return to Waterloo Walter Scott: The Discipline of History Exhibiting War: Panoramas and Battle Tours Southey's Vision of Command Coleridge: The Imagination at War Wordsworth's Abyss of Weakness 'For Want of a Better Cause': Lord Byron's War with Posterity Conclusion Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

PHILIP SHAW is Lecturer in English at the University of Leicester. He is the editor of Romantic Wars: Studies in Culture and Conflict, 1789-1822.