Waterloo and the Romantic Imagination

by Philip Shaw

This book 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333994353
• ISBN13: 9780333994351
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 8.3"