Romanticism in the Shadow of War: Literary Culture in the Napoleonic War Years

ISBN-13: 9781107419834 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 296 str.

Jeffrey N. Cox

Opis

A fresh take on Romantic writers including Byron, the Shelleys, and Keats, within the culture of the Napoleonic War years.

Recenzje

'Jeffrey Cox has written an elegant and persuasive book about literary genres considered as cultural maneuvers on the English home front during the course of the Napoleonic Wars strictly defined, 1800–15.' Kenneth R. Johnston, The BARS Review

Spis treści

Introduction: border raids as cultural practice; 1. Holcroft's Parisian expedition; 2. After war: Manfred and the melodrama; 3. Barbauld's sallies; 4. Love beyond faith and hope: Percy and Mary Shelley on history and prophecy; 5. The import of Hunt's 'Italianism'; 6. Cockneys in Tuscany; Select bibliography.