Imagining War and Peace in Eighteenth-Century Britain, 1690-1820

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'Lincoln's book has at its heart a fascinating question: how do eighteenth-century Britons manage at the same time to see themselves as increasingly civilized and as almost perpetually committed to war? In clear, strong prose, Lincoln moves across the long eighteenth century, tackling both a wide range of literary texts and other cultural works including philosophy and journalism and treating both hypercanonical authors (such as Austen) and texts clearly deserving more attention (Richard Glover's Leonidas). Avoiding a reductive binary between war and civilization, he provides a panoramic view of how Britons thought about war and dreamed of peace.' Jeffrey Cox, Distinguished Professor of English and Humanities, University of Colorado, Boulder 'In this rich and expansive study, Lincoln shows that eighteenth-century writers responded to the moral dilemmas posed by modern warfare with a wide range of caveats and compromises, strategies and solutions. Lincoln is an immensely knowledgeable guide to eighteenth-century writing about war, and this fascinating book makes an important contribution to scholarship in the field.' Julia Banister, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Leeds Beckett University