Waterloo and the Romantic Imagination
, by Shaw, PhilipNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780333994351 | 0333994353
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 10/11/2002
This book offers a new and challenging 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.