Tracing War in British Enlightenment and Romantic Culture

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction: Tracing War in Enlightenment and Romantic Culture

   • Neil Ramsey, Gillian Russell

   Pages 1-15

3. Shandeism and the Shame of War

   • Jonathan Lamb

   Pages 16-36

4. Invalid Elegy and Gothic Pageantry: André, Seward and the Loss of the American War

   • Daniel O’Quinn

   Pages 37-60

5. Victims of War: Battlefield Casualties and Literary Sensibility

   • R. S. White

   Pages 61-76

6. The Cultural Afterlives of Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution

   • Deirdre Coleman

   Pages 77-95

7. Romantic Militarisation: Sociability, Theatricality and Military Science in the Woolwich Rotunda, 1814–2013

   • Gillian Russell

   Pages 96-112

8. Exhibiting Discipline: Military Science and the Naval and Military Library and Museum

   • Neil Ramsey

   Pages 113-131

9. Battling Bonaparte after Waterloo: Re-enactment, Representation and ‘The Napoleon Bust Business’

   • Simon Bainbridge

   Pages 132-150

10. Turner’s Desert Storm

    • Philip Shaw

    Pages 151-170

11. Narrative and Atmosphere: War by Other Media in Wilkie, Clausewitz and Turner

    • Thomas H. Ford

    Pages 171-187

12. Destroyer and Bearer of Worlds: The Aesthetic Doubleness of War

    • Nick Mansfield

    Pages 188-203

13. Back Matter

    Pages 204-239

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This volume argues for the enduring and pervasive significance of war in the formation of British Enlightenment and Romantic culture. Showing how war throws into question conventional disciplinary parameters and periodization, essays in the collection consider how war shapes culture through its multiple, divergent, and productive traces.

• Romanticism and war
• war writing
• war and emotion
• war and art
• Turner
• Clausewitz
• Romantic aesthetics
• Enlightenment and war
• Waterloo
• critical war studies
• aesthetics
• culture
• George Bernard Shaw
• Narrative
• Romanticism
• British and Irish Literature

• University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia

  Neil Ramsey

• University of Melbourne, Australia

  Gillian Russell

Simon Bainbridge, Lancaster University, UK Deirdre Coleman, University of Melbourne, Australia Thomas H. Ford, University of Melbourne, Australia Jonathan Lamb, Vanderbilt University, USA Nick Mansfield, Macquarie University, Australia Daniel O'Quinn, University of Guelph, Canada Philip Shaw, University of Leicester, UK Neil Ramsey, University of New South Wales, Australia Gillian Russell, University of Melbourne, Australia R. S. White, University of Western Australia, Australia

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