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

by J. Watson

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333801765
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	09/30/2003
Edition description:	2003
Pages:	254
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

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).

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

'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

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