Romanticism and the Biopolitics of Modern War Writing

ISBN-13: 9781009100441 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

NEIL RAMSEY

Opis

This book illuminates the genesis and development of modern war writing in relation to Romanticism, biopolitics and disciplinary theory.

Spis treści

Introduction: Romanticism and the Bio-aesthetics of the Military Literary World; 1. Writing and the Disciplinarisation of Military Knowledge; 2. Strategy in the Age of History: Henry Lloyd's Sublime Philosophy of War; 3. Robert Jackson's Medicalisation of Military Discipline; 4. More a Poet than a Statesman: The Epic Vigour of Charles Pasley's Military Policy; 5. Thomas Hamilton's Wordsworthian Novel of War: Sexuality, Wounding and the Bare Life of the Soldier; Afterword: Trauma, Security and Romantic Counter-Strategies; Bibliography.