Is war the opposite of peace, or its necessary accomplice? Exploring this question in relation to eighteenth-century Britain, Andrew Lincoln opens up complex, paradoxical and enduring issues and shows how ideas and methods were developed to provide the British public with moral insulation from violence both overseas and at home.
Is war the opposite of peace, or its necessary accomplice? Exploring this question in relation to eighteenth-century Britain, Andrew Lincoln opens up complex, paradoxical and enduring issues and shows how ideas and methods were developed to provide the British public with moral insulation from violence both overseas and at home.
Andrew Lincoln is Emeritus Professor of English at Queen Mary, University of London. He has previously published on William Blake, including a 1992 edition of Songs of Innocence and Experience and the monograph Spiritual History (1996), and on Walter Scott, with his monograph Walter Scott and Modernity (2007). His current research focuses on eighteenth-century responses to war and ideas about how to achieve peace.
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I. Developing Ideals: 1. The Culture of War and Civil Society, from William III to George I 2. War and the Culture of Politeness: The Case of The Tatler and the Spectator 3. Sacrifice: Heroism and Mourning 4. Sacrifice: Christian Heroes II. Developing Questions: 5. War and the 'Elevation' of the Novel 6. War and the 'Science of Man' III. War and Peace in an Age of Revolutions: 7. Complicities in the Novel 8. Saving Individual Virtue 9. Saving Communal Virtue 10. The ideal of Non-resistance IV. The Landscape of Conquest: 11. A Case Study: Gibraltar.
I. Developing Ideals: 1. The Culture of War and Civil Society, from William III to George I 2. War and the Culture of Politeness: The Case of The Tatler and the Spectator 3. Sacrifice: Heroism and Mourning 4. Sacrifice: Christian Heroes II. Developing Questions: 5. War and the 'Elevation' of the Novel 6. War and the 'Science of Man' III. War and Peace in an Age of Revolutions: 7. Complicities in the Novel 8. Saving Individual Virtue 9. Saving Communal Virtue 10. The ideal of Non-resistance IV. The Landscape of Conquest: 11. A Case Study: Gibraltar.
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