Romanticism and War - A Study of British Romantic Period Writers and the Napoleonic Wars

Zusatztext 'Watson has produced a work that is interesting! engaging and extremely informative. He deals with a complex subject clearly and he powerfully conveys the importance of war in the writing and thinking of those he studies'. - Professor Simon Bainbridge! School of English and Philosophy! Keele University Informationen zum Autor J.R. Watson is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Durham. He is author of Wordsworth's Vital Soul, English Poetry of the Romantic Period, 1789-1830, The Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins and The English Hymn , and the editor of anthologies, most recently An Annotated Anthology of Hymns (2002). Klappentext This book is a study of war and the perceptions of war. It deals specifically with the British Romantic period writers who lived through the Napoleonic wars! and the way in which those wars affected the writing of Scott! Wordsworth! Coleridge! Shelley! Byron and many of their contemporaries. Watson discusses the particular fascination of those wars! and the way in which they affected a way of thinking about war that lasted until the early twentieth century. Zusammenfassung This book is a study of war and the perceptions of war. It deals specifically with the British Romantic period writers who lived through the Napoleonic wars, and the way in which those wars affected the writing of Scott, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron and many of their contemporaries. Watson discusses the particular fascination of those wars, and the way in which they affected a way of thinking about war that lasted until the early twentieth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Ways of Seeing War 1793 1793 and After 1795-1802 The Peace of Amiens and After, 1802-5 Poetry and the Army: The War, 1807-8 Cintra and Corunna The Last Years Ways of Seeing War: The Poets Ways of Seeing War: The Soldiers Afterwords: De Qunicey, Ruskin, Hardy Bibliography Index...

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Introduction Ways of Seeing War 1793 1793 and After 1795-1802 The Peace of Amiens and After, 1802-5 Poetry and the Army: The War, 1807-8 Cintra and Corunna The Last Years Ways of Seeing War: The Poets Ways of Seeing War: The Soldiers Afterwords: De Qunicey, Ruskin, Hardy Bibliography Index

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This book is a study of war and the perceptions of war. It deals specifically with the British Romantic period writers who lived through the Napoleonic wars, and the way in which those wars affected the writing of Scott, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron and many of their contemporaries.

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'Watson has produced a work that is interesting, engaging and extremely informative. He deals with a complex subject clearly and he powerfully conveys the importance of war in the writing and thinking of those he studies'. - Professor Simon Bainbridge, School of English and Philosophy, Keele University

Product details

• Authors: J Watson, J. Watson
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349421350
• ISBN: 978-1-349-42135-0
• No. of pages: 263
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; B, History, European History, Poetry, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: general, History, Modern, Modern History, Poetry and Poetics, History of Britain and Ireland, Great Britain—History, European Literature, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Literature, Modern—18th century, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Early Modern and Renaissance Literature, Literature, Modern, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection