Writing War in Britain and France, 1370-1854: A History of Emotions

ISBN-13: 9781138219168 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 244 str.

Stephanie Downes; Andrew Lynch; Katrina O'Loughlin

Opis

Writing War in Britain and France, 1370-1854 explores the ways in which writing in various genres and forms has helped create war as an emotional experience in Western cultural tradition.

Spis treści

List of figures. 1. ‘In Form of War’: War and Emotional Formation in European History, Stephanie Downes and Andrew Lynch. 2. Confessing the Emotions of War in the Late Middle Ages: Le Livre des fais de Boucicaut, Craig Taylor. 3. Emotion and Medieval ‘Violence’: The Alliterative Morte Arthure and The Siege of Jerusalem, Andrew Lynch. 4. The Armagnac-Burgundian Feud and the Languages of Anger, Tracy Adams. 5. Violent Compassion in Late Medieval Writing, Catharine Nall. 6. ‘Thus of War, a Paradox I write’: Thomas Dekker and a Londoner’s View of Continental War and Peace, Merridee L Bailey. 7. Corresponding Romances: Henri II and the Last Campaigns of the Italian Wars, Susan Broomhall. 8. Bellicose Passions in Margaret Cavendish’s Playes (1662), Diana G Barnes. 9. ‘At Newburn foord, where brave Scots past the Tine’: Emotions, Literature, and the Battle of Newburn, Gordon D Raeburn. 10. ‘This humble monument of guiltless Blood’: The Emotional Landscape of Covenanter Monuments, Dolly Mackinnon. 11. Paradoxes of Form and Chaos in the Poetry of Waterloo, R.S. White. 12. War and Emotion in the Age of Biedermeier: The United Service Journal and the Military Tale, Neil Ramsay. 13. ‘A Possession for Eternity’: Thomas De Quincey’s Feeling for War, Michael Champion and Miranda Stanyon. Index.