Tracing War in British Enlightenment and Romantic Culture (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Russell, Gillian; Ramsey, Neil

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume argues for the enduring and pervasive significance of war in the formation of British Enlightenment and Romantic culture. Showing how war throws into question conventional disciplinary parameters and periodization, essays in the collection consider how war shapes culture through its multiple, divergent, and productive traces.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Seitenzahl: 239
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137474315
• Artikelnr.: 43978826

Autorenporträt

Simon Bainbridge, Lancaster University, UK Deirdre Coleman, University of Melbourne, Australia Thomas H. Ford, University of Melbourne, Australia Jonathan Lamb, Vanderbilt University, USA Nick Mansfield, Macquarie University, Australia Daniel O'Quinn, University of Guelph, Canada Philip Shaw, University of Leicester, UK Neil Ramsey, University of New South Wales, Australia Gillian Russell, University of Melbourne, Australia R. S. White, University of Western Australia, Australia

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Tracing War in
Enlightenment and Romantic Culture; Neil Ramsey and Gillian Russell 1.
Shandeism and the Shame of War; Jonathan Lamb 2. Invalid Elegy and Gothic
Pageantry: André, Seward and the Loss of the American War; Daniel O'Quinn
3. Victims of War: Battlefield Casualties and Literary Sensibility; R. S.
White 4. The Cultural Afterlives of Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian
Revolution; Deirdre Coleman 5. Romantic Militarisation: Sociability,
Theatricality and Military Science in the Woolwich Rotunda, 1814-2013;
Gillian Russell 6. Exhibiting Discipline: Military Science and the Naval
and Military Library and Museum; Neil Ramsey 7. Battling Bonaparte after
Waterloo: Re-enactment, Representation and 'The Napoleon Bust Business';
Simon Bainbridge 8. Turner's Desert Storm; Philip Shaw 9. Narrative and
Atmosphere: War by Other Media in Wilkie, Clausewitz and Turner; Thomas H.
Ford 10. Destroyer and Bearer of Worlds: The Aesthetic Doubleness of War;
Nick Mansfield Bibliography Index