Simon Bainbridge, Lancaster University, UKDeirdre Coleman, University of Melbourne, AustraliaThomas H. Ford, University of Melbourne, AustraliaJonathan Lamb, Vanderbilt University, USANick Mansfield, Macquarie University, AustraliaDaniel O'Quinn, University of Guelph, CanadaPhilip Shaw, University of Leicester, UKNeil Ramsey, University of New South Wales, AustraliaGillian Russell, University of Melbourne, AustraliaR. S. White, University of Western Australia, Australia
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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Edited By Neil Ramsey and Gillian Russell
Inhaltsverzeichnis
AcknowledgementsrnNotes on ContributorsrnIntroduction: Tracing War in Enlightenment and Romantic Culture; Neil Ramsey and Gillian Russellrn1. Shandeism and the Shame of War; Jonathan Lambrn2. Invalid Elegy and Gothic Pageantry: André, Seward and the Loss of the American War; Daniel O'Quinnrn3. Victims of War: Battlefield Casualties and Literary Sensibility; R. S. Whitern4. The Cultural Afterlives of Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution; Deirdre Colemanrn5. Romantic Militarisation: Sociability, Theatricality and Military Science in the Woolwich Rotunda, 1814-2013; Gillian Russellrn6. Exhibiting Discipline: Military Science and the Naval and Military Library and Museum; Neil Ramseyrn7. Battling Bonaparte after Waterloo: Re-enactment, Representation and 'The Napoleon Bust Business'; Simon Bainbridgern8. Turner's Desert Storm; Philip Shawrn9. Narrative and Atmosphere: War by Other Media in Wilkie, Clausewitz and Turner; Thomas H. Fordrn10. Destroyer and Bearer of Worlds: The Aesthetic Doubleness of War; Nick MansfieldrnBibliographyrnIndexrn
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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.
