In this book, Neil Ramsey examines the intellectual contexts of the period in which modern war writing first took shape: the Romantic era. Demonstrating the critical importance of theories of biopolitics in understanding modern war, Ramsey reveals rich and often surprising interconnections between military literature and Romantic culture.
In this book, Neil Ramsey examines the intellectual contexts of the period in which modern war writing first took shape: the Romantic era. Demonstrating the critical importance of theories of biopolitics in understanding modern war, Ramsey reveals rich and often surprising interconnections between military literature and Romantic culture.
Neil Ramsey is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of New South Wales, Australia. His interests include the literary, cultural and biopolitical responses to warfare during the eighteenth century and Romantic eras, with a particular focus on the representations of personal experience and the development of a modern culture of war. He is the author of The Military Memoir and Romantic Literary Culture, 1780-1835 (2011) and co-editor, with Gillian Russell, of Tracing War in British Enlightenment and Romantic Culture (2015) and, with Anders Engberg-Pedersen, of War and Literary Studies (c.2022).
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Introduction: Romanticism and the Bio-aesthetics of the Military Literary World 1. Writing and the Disciplinarisation of Military Knowledge 2. Strategy in the Age of History: Henry Lloyd's Sublime Philosophy of War 3. Robert Jackson's Medicalisation of Military Discipline 4. More a Poet than a Statesman: The Epic Vigour of Charles Pasley's Military Policy 5. Thomas Hamilton's Wordsworthian Novel of War: Sexuality, Wounding and the Bare Life of the Soldier Afterword: Trauma, Security and Romantic Counter-Strategies Bibliography.
Introduction: Romanticism and the Bio-aesthetics of the Military Literary World 1. Writing and the Disciplinarisation of Military Knowledge 2. Strategy in the Age of History: Henry Lloyd's Sublime Philosophy of War 3. Robert Jackson's Medicalisation of Military Discipline 4. More a Poet than a Statesman: The Epic Vigour of Charles Pasley's Military Policy 5. Thomas Hamilton's Wordsworthian Novel of War: Sexuality, Wounding and the Bare Life of the Soldier Afterword: Trauma, Security and Romantic Counter-Strategies Bibliography.
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