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Romanticism and War

A Study of British Romantic Period Writers and the Napoleonic Wars

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  • © 2003

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  1. J. R. Watson

    1. University of Durham, UK

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • J. R. Watson
    Pages 1-22

  3. Ways of Seeing War

    • J. R. Watson
    Pages 23-38

  4. 1793

    • J. R. Watson
    Pages 39-51

  5. 1793 and after

    • J. R. Watson
    Pages 52-67

  6. 1795–1802

    • J. R. Watson
    Pages 68-83

  7. The Peace of Amiens and after, 1802–05

    • J. R. Watson
    Pages 84-107

  8. Poetry and the Army: The War, 1807–08

    • J. R. Watson
    Pages 108-122

  9. Cintra and Corunna

    • J. R. Watson
    Pages 123-143

  10. The Last Years

    • J. R. Watson
    Pages 144-173

  11. Ways of Seeing War: The Poets

    • J. R. Watson
    Pages 174-196

  12. Ways of Seeing War: The Soldiers

    • J. R. Watson
    Pages 197-216

  13. Afterwords: De Quincey, Ruskin and Hardy

    • J. R. Watson
    Pages 217-229

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 230-254
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About this book

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.

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'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

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Durham, UK

    J. R. Watson

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).

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