Simon Bainbridge

British Poetry and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Visions of Conflict

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Produktbeschreibung

This book argues that poetry played a major role in the mediation of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars to the British public, and that the wars had a significant impact on poetic practices and theories in the Romantic period. It examines a wide range of writers, both canonical (Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Byron) and non-canonical (Smith, Southey, Scott, and Hemans), and locates their work within the huge amount of war poetry published in newspapers and magazines.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 149mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9780198187585
• ISBN-10: 0198187580
• Artikelnr.: 22304237

Autorenporträt

(Professor of English Literature, University of Keele)

Inhaltsangabe

* List of abbreviations
* 1: Poetry in 'The Age of War'
* 2: The poetic imagining of war in the 1790s: Charlotte Smith and
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
* 3: 'Was it for this . . . ?': war and poetic identity in Southey and
Wordsworth, 1793-1802
* 4: 'Men are we': poetry, war, and gender in Wordsworth's political
sonnets, 1802-3
* 5: Walter Scott's picturesque romance of war, 1805-14
* 6: 'History in the land of romance': poetry and the Peninsular war,
1808-14
* 7: 'Of war and taking towns': Byron's and Heman's post-Waterloo
poetry, 1816-25
* Epilogue: the 'Sir Walter disease' and the legacy of romantic war
* Bibliography
* Index