Tracing War in British Enlightenment and Romantic Culture

by Gillian Russell (Editor), Neil Ramsey (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137474308
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	09/25/2015
Series:	Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
Edition description:	1st ed. 2015
Pages:	239
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

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