| Description |
xiv, 259 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in Romanticism |
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Cambridge studies in Romanticism.
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| Contents |
1. A 'conqueror of kings' and 'a deliverer of men': the revolutionary figure of Napoleon in the writing of Coleridge, Southey and Landor -- 2. 'In such strength of usurpation': Wordsworth's Napoleonic imagination -- 3. 'Historiographer[s] to the King of Hell': The Lake poets' Peninsular campaign -- 4. Staging history: Byron and Napoleon, 1813-1814 -- 5. Waterloo: 'The greatest event of modern times' -- 6. 'A proud and full answer': Hazlitt's Napoleonic riposte -- Conclusion: The Age of Bronze |
| Summary |
Napoleon Bonaparte occupied a central place in the consciousness of many British writers of the Romantic period. He was a profound shaping influence on their thinking and writing, and a powerful symbolic and mythic figure whom they used to legitimize and discredit a wide range of political and aesthetic positions. In this first ever full-length study of Romantic writers' obsession with Napoleon, Simon Bainbridge focuses on the writings of the Lake poets Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey, and of Byron and Hazlitt. Combining detailed analyses of specific texts with broader historical and theoretical approaches, and illustrating his argument with the visual evidence of contemporary cartoons, Bainbridge shows how Romantic writers constructed, appropriated and contested different Napoleons as a crucial part of their sustained and partisan engagement in the political and cultural debates of the day |
| Analysis |
English poetry Romanticism History, 1800-1837 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-252) and index |
| Subject |
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 -- Influence.
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Napoleon, Emperor of the French I, 1769-1821 -- Influence
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English literature -- French influences.
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English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Kings and rulers in literature.
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Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Romanticism -- Great Britain.
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| LC no. |
95000713 |
| ISBN |
0521473365 |
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