Waterloo and the Romantic Imagination - Hardcover

by Philip Shaw (Author)

Waterloo and the Romantic Imagination 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.

Author Biography

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.