Andrew Lincoln

Imagining War and Peace in Eighteenth-Century Britain, 1690-1820 (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009366557
• Artikelnr.: 70910776

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.