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Waterloo and the Romantic Imagination

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  • © 2002

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  1. Philip Shaw
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction: the Return of Waterloo

    • Philip Shaw
    Pages 1-34

  3. Walter Scott: the Discipline of History

    • Philip Shaw
    Pages 35-66

  4. Exhibiting War: Battle Tours and Panoramas

    • Philip Shaw
    Pages 67-91

  5. Southey’s Vision of Command

    • Philip Shaw
    Pages 92-113

  6. Coleridge: the Imagination at War

    • Philip Shaw
    Pages 114-139

  7. Wordsworth’s Abyss of Weakness

    • Philip Shaw
    Pages 140-164

  8. ‘For Want of a Better Cause’: Lord Byron’s War with Posterity

    • Philip Shaw
    Pages 165-191

  9. Conclusion

    • Philip Shaw
    Pages 192-211

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 212-260
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About this book

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.

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