British Romanticism And Peace

Author : John Bugg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : English literature
ISBN : 9780198839668

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This is the first book to bring perspectives from the interdisciplinary field of Peace Studies to bear on the writing of the Romantic period. Particularly significant is that field's attention not only to the work of anti-war protest, but more purposefully to considerations of how peace can actively be fostered, established, and sustained. Bravely resisting discourses of military propaganda, writers such as Amelia Opie, Helen Maria Williams, William Wordsworth, William Cobbett, John Keats, and Jane Austen embarked on the challenging and urgent rhetorical work of imagining--and inspiring others to imagine--the possibility of peace. The writers formulate a peace imaginary in various registers. Sometimes this means identifying and eschewing traditional militaristic tropes in order to craft alternative images for a patriotism compatible with peace. Other times it means turning away from xenophobic discourse to write about relations with other nations in terms other than those of conflict. If historically informed literary criticism has illustrated the importance of writing about war during the Romantic period, this volume invites readers to redirect critical attention to move beyond discourses of war, and to recognize the era's complex and vibrant writing about and for peace.

Author : John W. Bugg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : English literature
ISBN : 019187549X

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'British Romanticism and Peace' brings perspectives from the field of Peace Studies to bear on the writing of the Romantic period. It explores how writers such William Wordsworth and Jane Austen wrote work that inspires others to imagine the possibility of peace and to resist discourses of military propaganda.

Author : Andrew Lincoln
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009366557

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Imagining War and Peace in Eighteenth-Century Britain, 1690–1820 by Andrew Lincoln Pdf

Is war the opposite of peace, or its necessary accomplice? Exploring this question in relation to eighteenth-century Britain, Andrew Lincoln opens up complex, paradoxical and enduring issues and shows how ideas and methods were developed to provide the British public with moral insulation from violence both overseas and at home.

Author : Philip Shaw
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009363143

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Wordsworth After War by Philip Shaw Pdf

William Wordsworth's later poetry complicates possibilities of life and art in war's aftermath. This illuminating study provides new perspectives and reveals how his work following the end of the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars reflects a passionate, lifelong engagement with the poetics and politics of peace. Focusing on works from between 1814 and 1822, Philip Shaw constructs a unique and compelling account of how Wordsworth, in both his ongoing poetic output and in his revisions to earlier works, sought to modify, refute, and sometimes sustain his early engagement with these issues as both an artist and a political thinker. In an engaging style, Shaw reorients our understanding of the later writings of a major British poet and the post-war literary culture in which his reputation was forged. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Author : Melissa Schoenberger
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684480494

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Cultivating Peace by Melissa Schoenberger Pdf

During the decades following the English civil wars, British poets seeking to make sense of lingering political instabilities turned to Virgil’s Georgics. This ancient poem betrays deep ambivalences about war, political power, and empire, and such poets as Andrew Marvell, John Dryden, and Anne Finch found in these attitudes valuable ways of responding to the uncertainties of their own time. Composed during a period of brutal conflict in Rome, Virgil’s agricultural poem distrusts easy stability, urging its readers to understand that lasting peace must be sowed, tended, reaped, and replanted, year after year. Like the ancient poet, who famously depicted a farmer’s scythe suddenly recast as a sword, the poets discussed in Cultivating Peace imagine states of peace and war to be fundamentally and materially linked. In distinct ways, they dismantle the dream of the golden age renewed, proposing instead that peace must be sustained by constant labor. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Author : R. White
Publisher : Springer
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230583641

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Pacifism and English Literature by R. White Pdf

This timely book traces ideas of pacifism in English literature, particularly poetry. Early chapters, drawing on religious and secular traditions, provide intellectual contexts. There follows a chronological analysis of literature which rejects war and celebrates peace, from the Middle Ages to the present day.

Author : Jeffrey N. Cox
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107071940

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Romanticism in the Shadow of War by Jeffrey N. Cox Pdf

A fresh take on Romantic writers including Byron, the Shelleys, and Keats, within the culture of the Napoleonic War years.

Author : John Bugg
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804787307

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Five Long Winters by John Bugg Pdf

This book argues that the British government's repression of the 1790s rivals the French Revolution as the most important historical event for our understanding the development of Romantic literature. Romanticism has long been associated with both rebellion and escapism, and much Romantic historicism traces an arc from the outburst of democratic energy in British culture triggered by the French Revolution to a dwindling of enthusiasm later in the 1790s, when things in France turned violent. Writers such as Wordsworth and Coleridge can then be seen as "apostates" who turned from radical politics to a poetics of transcendence. Bugg argues instead for a poetics of silence, and his book is set against the backdrop of the so-called Gagging Acts and other legislation of William Pitt, which in literature manifests itself stylistically as silence, stuttering, fragmentation, and encoding. Mining archives of unpublished documents, including manuscripts, diaries, and letters, where authors were more candid, as well as rereading the work of both major and minor figures, a number of whom were subject to prison sentences, Five Long Winters offers a new way of approaching the literature of the Romantic era.

Author : C. Packham
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230368392

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Eighteenth-Century Vitalism by C. Packham Pdf

This book offers an important account of the relationship between science and culture in the eighteenth century. It examines the 'vitalist' turn in physiology and natural philosophy, and its presence and effect in the burgeoning of philosophical and scientific inquiry of the Scottish Enlightenment, and the radical politics and culture of the 1790s.

Author : Leonard W. Cowie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : IND:32000013344462

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From the Peace of Paris to World War I: British History, 1763-1914 by Leonard W. Cowie Pdf

Author : J. Watson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230514539

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Romanticism and War by J. Watson Pdf

This book is a study of war and the perceptions of war. It deals specifically with the British Romantic period writers who lived through the Napoleonic wars, and the way in which those wars affected the writing of Scott, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron and many of their contemporaries. Watson discusses the particular fascination of those wars, and the way in which they affected a way of thinking about war that lasted until the early twentieth century.

Author : Oliver P. Richmond
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192857026

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Peace by Oliver P. Richmond Pdf

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The concept of peace has always attracted radical thought, action, and practices. It has been taken to mean merely an absence of overt violence or war, but in the contemporary era it is often used interchangeably with 'peacemaking', 'peacebuilding', 'conflict resolution', and 'statebuilding'. The modern concept of peace has therefore broadened from the mere absence of violence to something much more complicated. In this Very Short Introduction, Oliver Richmond explores the evolution of peace in practice and in theory, exploring our modern assumptions about peace and the various different interpretations of its applications. This second edition has been theoretically and empirically updated and introduces a new framework to understand the overall evolution of the international peace architecture. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : David Duff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191019708

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The Oxford Handbook of British Romanticism by David Duff Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of British Romanticism offers a comprehensive guide to the literature and thought of the Romantic period, and an overview of the latest research on this topic. Written by a team of international experts, the Handbook analyses all aspects of the Romantic movement, pinpointing its different historical phases and analysing the intellectual and political currents which shaped them. It gives particular attention to devolutionary trends, exploring the English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish strands in 'British' Romanticism and assessing the impact of the constitutional changes that brought into being the 'United Kingdom' at a time of revolutionary turbulence and international conflict. It also gives extensive coverage to the publishing and reception history of Romantic writing, highlighting the role of readers, reviewers, publishers, and institutions in shaping Romantic literary culture and transmitting its ideas and values. Divided into ten sections, each containing four or five chapters, the Handbook covers key themes and concepts in Romantic studies as well as less chartered topics such as freedom of speech, literature and drugs, Romantic oratory, and literary uses of dialect. All the major male and female Romantic authors are included along with numerous lesser-known writers, the emphasis throughout being on the diversity of Romantic writing and the complexities and internal divisions of the culture that sustained it. The volume strikes a balance between familiarity and novelty to provide an accessible guide to current thinking and a conceptual reorganization of this fast-moving field.

Author : Jeffrey N. Cox
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107419832

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Romanticism in the Shadow of War by Jeffrey N. Cox Pdf

Jeffrey N. Cox reconsiders the history of British Romanticism, seeing the work of Byron, the Shelleys, and Keats responding not only to the 'first generation' Romantics led by Wordsworth, but more directly to the cultural innovations of the Napoleonic War years. Recreating in depth three moments of political crisis and cultural creativity - the Peace of Amiens, the Regency Crisis, and Napoleon's first abdication - Cox shows how 'second generation' Romanticism drew on cultural 'border raids', seeking a global culture at a time of global war. This book explores how the introduction on the London stage of melodrama in 1803 shaped Romantic drama, how Barbauld's prophetic satire Eighteen Hundred and Eleven prepares for the work of the Shelleys, and how Hunt's controversial Story of Rimini showed younger writers how to draw on the Italian cultural archive. Responding to world war, these writers sought to embrace a radically new vision of the world.

Author : Dale H. Simmons
Publisher : Studies in Evangelicalism
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Evangelicalism
ISBN : UOM:39015040748140

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E. W. Kenyon and the Postbellum Pursuit of Peace, Power, and Plenty by Dale H. Simmons Pdf

The most comprehensive biography of Essek William Kenyon (1867-1948) available today. It explores his influence on the Pentecostal/Charismatic movements, and likewise illuminates the practice of intuition and mysticism from which the 20th century message of peace, power, and plenty emerged. Simmons has skillfully organized his material, and the extensive footnotes and selected bibliography add to the book's usefulness... --CHOICE