Tracing war in British enlightenment and romantic culture / edited by Neil Ramsey, Lecturer in English, University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia, and Gillian Russell, Gerry Higgins Chair in Irish Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia.
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.
Summary:
This volume argues for the enduring significance of war in the formation of British Enlightenment and Romantic culture. It is premised on the assumption that the study of war in this period cannot be contained by conventional disciplinary rubrics, parameters and periodizations. Offering, therefore, an interdisciplinary approach, it combines consideration of the many forms of war's textuality with an attention to its affects, materialities and socialities. The collection problematises assumptions about the ontology of war by focussing on its multiple, divergent and productive traces.
Series:
Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and the cultures of print
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