ENGLISH

Bloody Romanticism: Spectacular Violence and the Politics of Representation, 1776-1832

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2006
ISBN
140394282X, 9781403942821
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3349606 bytes)
Series
Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print
Pages
270\283
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

This book is the first comprehensive study of the subject of spectacular violence in British Romantic literature and print culture. It looks at the impact and influence of a series of catastrophically violent events: the transatlantic slave trade; the American war of Independence and the 'Indian' problem; the French revolution and the Napoleonic wars; the Irish rebellion of 1798; and a series of riots and 'disturbances' stretching from the Gordon riots of 1780 to the Reform Bill riots of 1831.

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