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Tracing War in British Enlightenment and Romantic Culture

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Informationen zum Autor 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 Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Tracing War in Enlightenment and Romantic Culture; Neil Ramsey and Gillian Russell1. Shandeism and the Shame of War; Jonathan Lamb2. Invalid Elegy and Gothic Pageantry: André, Seward and the Loss of the American War; Daniel O'Quinn3. Victims of War: Battlefield Casualties and Literary Sensibility; R. S. White4. The Cultural Afterlives of Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution; Deirdre Coleman5. Romantic Militarisation: Sociability, Theatricality and Military Science in the Woolwich Rotunda, 1814-2013; Gillian Russell6. Exhibiting Discipline: Military Science and the Naval and Military Library and Museum; Neil Ramsey7. Battling Bonaparte after Waterloo: Re-enactment, Representation and 'The Napoleon Bust Business'; Simon Bainbridge8. Turner's Desert Storm; Philip Shaw9. Narrative and Atmosphere: War by Other Media in Wilkie, Clausewitz and Turner; Thomas H. Ford10. Destroyer and Bearer of Worlds: The Aesthetic Doubleness of War; Nick MansfieldBibliographyIndex ...

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