Waterloo and the Romantic Imagination

Shaw, Philip

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2002-07-23

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333994351

DOI: 10.1057/9780230513464

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 260