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This 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. The 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 collection offers a reflection on the texts and contexts of the first "Great War".

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Romantic Wars
• Author: Philip Shaw
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 246
• EAN: 9781840142662
• ISBN: 1840142669
• ID: 04848111
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Weight: 498 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 156 mm
• Date of publishing: 29. December 2000

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