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Overview
"Romantic Wars is a collection of eight specially commissioned essays focusing on the relations between British Romantic culture (poetry, fiction, painting and nonfictional prose) and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Whilst in recent years much attention has been paid to the influence of the French Revolution on British Romanticism, comparatively little has been written about the effects of war. This book takes, as its central thesis, the idea that Romanticism is facilitated and conditioned by a culture of hostility. Whether this is manifested in Blakean visions of 'mental warfare', or in socio-historical reflections on the links between conflict and nationhood, the essays in this volume seek to correct a prevailing assumption that the culture of this period is unaffected by the discourse of violence."--BOOK JACKET.Synopsis
"Romantic Wars is a collection of eight specially commissioned essays focusing on the relations between British Romantic culture (poetry, fiction, painting and nonfictional prose) and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Whilst in recent years much attention has been paid to the influence of the French Revolution on British Romanticism, comparatively little has been written about the effects of war. This book takes, as its central thesis, the idea that Romanticism is facilitated and conditioned by a culture of hostility. Whether this is manifested in Blakean visions of 'mental warfare', or in socio-historical reflections on the links between conflict and nationhood, the essays in this volume seek to correct a prevailing assumption that the culture of this period is unaffected by the discourse of violence."--BOOK JACKET.
Booknews
Eight commissioned essays explore the relations between British Romantic culture<-->poetry, fiction, painting, and non-fictional prose<-->and the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars raging across Europe. British and American scholars of literature argue that Romanticism is facilitated and conditioned by a culture of hostility, whether Blakean visions of mental warfare or socio-historical reflections on links between conflict and nationhood. Above all they seek to dispel the assumption that the culture of the period was unaffected by the discourse of violence. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)