Waterloo and the Romantic Imagination
Published on 23. July 2002
XIV, 260 pages
978-0-230-51346-4 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
'Waterloo and the Romantic Imagination is a stimulating and exciting book, written with authority and intelligence...' - Simon Bainbridge, Department of English, Keele University
'This study of the British literary response to Waterloo is a book about endings: the ending of the long war with France, the ending of forty thousand lives...an ambitious and intelligent book from which we can all learn.' - Gavin Edwards, University of Glamorgan Literature and History
' [A] persuasive and thorough analysis.' - Gillen D'Arcy Wood, University of Illinois, USA
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Waterloo and the Romantic Imagination
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07/2002
Palgrave Macmillan
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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
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Content
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
