Bloody Romanticism [electronic resource] : spectacular violence and the politics of representation, 1776-1832 / Ian Haywood.
Bloody Romanticism is the first attempt to study the impact of spectacular violence on the literature and culture of the Romantic period. In the late eighteenth century, the British reading public experienced a series of catastrophically violent events: the revolutions in America and France, the Iri...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Basingstoke [England] ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2006.
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| Series: | Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print.
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| Summary: | Bloody Romanticism is the first attempt to study the impact of spectacular violence on the literature and culture of the Romantic period. In the late eighteenth century, the British reading public experienced a series of catastrophically violent events: the revolutions in America and France, the Irish rebellion of 1798, the campaign against the slave trade, and the Gordon riots. In order to raise public awareness about the violent reality of these conflicts, writers and artists made the graphic representation of atrocity a powerful tool of representation. By drawing on a wide range of primary sources, including fiction, poetry, drama, journalism, pamphlets, sermons, slave autobiography, captivity narratives, satire and the epic, Ian Haywood shows that the Romantic imagination was profoundly marked by this disturbing and controversial theme. Authors covered include Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey, Scott, Edgeworth, Byron, Fennimore Cooper, Equiano, Barlow, Cobbett, George Walker and Helen Maria WIlliams. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 270 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-264) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780230596795 0230596797 9781349521623 1349521620 1283184540 9781283184540 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |