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Waterloo and the Romantic Imagination offers a new and challenging look at the cultural significance of the Battle of Waterloo, and the impact it had on British Romantic culture. Drawing on a range of approaches it aims to redefine the Romantic period as an age of inter- and intra-national conflict, thus overturning conventional notions of 'The Romantic Project', and re-writing the period from first principles. Topics covered include: the impact of Waterloo on Romantic ideas of individual and national identity, the representation of the dead and wounded in poetry, painting and prose, the work of canonical and non-canonical poets.
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'Waterloo and the Romantic Imagination is a stimulating and exciting book, written with authority and intelligence...' - Simon Bainbridge, Department of English, Keele University
'This study of the British literary response to Waterloo is a book about endings: the ending of the long war with France, the ending of forty thousand lives...an ambitious and intelligent book from which we can all learn.' - Gavin Edwards, University of Glamorgan Literature and History
' [A] persuasive and thorough analysis.' - Gillen D'Arcy Wood, University of Illinois, USA
About the author
PHILIP SHAW is Lecturer in English at the University of Leicester. He is the editor of Romantic Wars: Studies in Culture and Conflict, 1789-1822.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Waterloo and the Romantic Imagination
Authors: Philip Shaw
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230513464
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2002
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-99435-1Published: 23 July 2002
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-51346-4Published: 23 July 2002
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 260
Topics: British and Irish Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature