Philip Shaw - Romantic Wars: Studies in Culture and Conflict, 1793–1822

Romantic Wars

Studies in Culture and Conflict, 17931822

Edited by

Philip Shaw

First published 2000 by Ashgate Publishing

Published 2017 by Routledge

2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon 0X14 4RN

711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

The editor has asserted his moral right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editor of this work.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

Notice:

Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.

Romantic wars : studies in culture and conflict, 17931822.

- (The nineteenth century series)

1. English literature 18th century History and criticism

2. English literature 19th century History and criticism

3. Romanticism 4. War in literature 5. War and society in literature

I. Shaw, Philip, 1965

820.9358

Romantic wars : studies in culture and conflict, 17931822 / edited by Philip Shaw,

p. cm.

1. English literatureFrench influences. 2. FranceHistoryRevolution,

17891799Literature and the revolution. 3. English literature19th centuryHistory

and criticism. 4. English literature18th centuryHistory and criticism.

5. FranceHistoryRevolution, 17891799Influence. 6. Napoleonic Wars,

18001815Literature and the wars. 7. FranceForeign public opinion, British.

8. Napoleonic Wars, 18001815Influence. 9. RomaticismGreat Britain.

10. RomanticismFrance. 11. War in literature. I. Shaw, Philip.

PR129.F8R66 2000

820.9358dc21

00-34842

Typeset by Manton Typesetters, Louth, Lincolnshire, UK.

General editors preface

Notes on contributors

Philip Shaw

Stephen C. Behrendt

Jacqueline M. Labbe

David Collings

Geoff Quilley

Mark Rawlinson

Diego Saglia

Simon Bainbridge

Philip Shaw

Eric C. Walker

Philip Shaw

Stephen C. Behrendt

Jacqueline M. Labbe

David Codings

Geoff Quilley

Mark Rawlinson

Diego Saglia

Simon Bainbridge

Philip Shaw

Eric C. Walker

The aim of this series is to reflect, develop and extend the great burgeoning of interest in the nineteenth century that has been an inevitable feature of recent decades, as that former epoch has come more sharply into focus as a locus for our understanding not only of the past, but also of the contours of our modernity. Though it is dedicated principally to the publication of original monographs and symposia in literature, history, cultural analysis, and associated fields, there will be a salient role for reprints of significant texts from, or about, the period. Our overarching policy is to address the spectrum of nineteenth-century studies without exception, achieving the widest scope in chronology, approach and range of concern. This, we believe, distinguishes our project from comparable ones, and means, for example, that in the relevant areas of scholarship we both recognize and cut innovatively across such parameters as those suggested by the designations Romantic and Victorian. We welcome new ideas, while valuing tradition. It is hoped that the world which predates yet so forcibly predicts and engages our own will emerge in parts, as a whole, and in the lively currents of debate and change that are so manifest an aspect of its intellectual, artistic and social landscape.

Vincent Newey
Joanne Shattock
University of Leicester

Simon Bainbridge is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Keele University. He is the author of Napoleon and English Romanticism (1995) and of a number of articles on the interrelations of literature and culture of the Romantic period with the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He is currently working on a monograph entitled British Poetry and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

Stephen C. Behrendt is George Holmes Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Nebraska. His publications include Shelley and his Audiences (1989), Reading William Blake (1992), Royal Mourning and Regency Culture: Elegies and Memorials of Princess Charlotte (1997) and a collection of poems entitled A Step in the Dark (1996). A co-edited collection of essays. Romanticism and Women Poets: Opening the Doors of Perception, appeared in 1999.

David Collings teaches at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. He has published Wordsworthian Errancies (1994) and articles on Coleridge and Mary Shelley. He is currently working on a book about the transformations of the idea of the common body in Britain in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Jacqueline M. Labbe is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Warwick where she specialises in poetry of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. She is the author of Romantic Visualities: Landscape, Gender and Romanticism (1998) and The Romantic Paradox: Violence and the Uses of Romance, 17601830 (forthcoming), as well as articles on womens writing in the Romantic period and nineteenth-century childrens literature. She is currently working on a study of gender dynamics and the development of the persona in the poetry of Charlotte Smith.

Geoff Quilley is Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Leicester. His research concentrates on eighteenth-century British art and the maritime nation, and he has published articles on art and colonialism, and art and national identity in eighteenth-century Britain.

Mark Rawlinson is Lecturer in English at the University of Leicester. His main research interests are in nineteenth- and twentieth-century poetry and prose and the literature of European urbanization. He is the author of British Writing of the Second World War (2000) and has written articles on twentieth-century literature, film and representations of the Holocaust.

Diego Saglia has taught at the University of Wales, Cardiff and the University of Bath and is now Lecturer in English at the University of Parma. He has written two books, Byron and Spain (1996) and Poetic Castles in Spain: British Romanticism and the Figurations of Iberia (forthcoming) and has published articles on Byron, Southey, Hemans, Mary Russell Mitford, the Alhambra in British Romantic Poetry and British Romantic translations of Spanish ballads. He is a collaborator with the Centre for Interdisciplinary Romantic Studies at the University of Bologna and is currently researching the discourse of luxury in Romantic-period writing.