Overview

""Waterloo and the Romantic Imagination"" offers a 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

'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

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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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