{"product_id":"napoleon-and-english-romanticism-hardback-9780521473361","title":"Napoleon and English Romanticism (Hardback) 9780521473361","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eNapoleon and English Romanticism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis first full-length study of Romantic writers' obsession with Napoleon focuses on the writings of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey, Byron and Hazlitt.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSimon Bainbridge (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521473361, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 24 November 1995\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e276 pages, 10 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 15.7 x 2.3 cm, 0.636 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"...this book will keep its place on a convenient shelf for all intellectually curious students of English romantic poetry.\"    Carl Woodring, Studies in Romanticism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eNapoleon Bonaparte occupied a central place in the consciousness of many British writers of the Romantic period. He was a profound shaping influence on their thinking and writing, and a powerful symbolic and mythic figure whom they used to legitimize and discredit a wide range of political and aesthetic positions. In this first ever full-length study of Romantic writers' obsession with Napoleon, Simon Bainbridge focuses on the writings of the Lake poets Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey, and of Byron and Hazlitt. Combining detailed analyses of specific texts with broader historical and theoretical approaches, and illustrating his argument with the visual evidence of contemporary cartoons, Bainbridge shows how Romantic writers constructed, appropriated, and contested different Napoleons as a crucial part of their sustained and partisan engagement in the political and cultural debates of the day.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: the poets and the conqueror\u003cbr\u003e 1. A 'conqueror of kings' and a 'deliverer of men': the revolutionary figure of Napoleon in the writing of Coleridge, Southey and Landor\u003cbr\u003e 2. 'In such strength of usurpation': Wordsworth's Napoleonic imagination\u003cbr\u003e 3. 'Historiographer[s] to the King of Hell': The Lake poets' Peninsular campaign\u003cbr\u003e 4. Staging history: Byron and Napoleon, 1813–1814\u003cbr\u003e 5. 'The greatest event of modern times'\u003cbr\u003e 6. 'A proud and full answer': Hazlitt's Napoleonic riposte\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: The Age of Bronze\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20c%201800%20to%20c%201900%20%20%5BDSBF%5D%22\"\u003eDSBF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46005102313752,"sku":"9780521473361","price":89.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521473361i_00c8f78e-d354-4dd6-9107-2de1cc7fc473.jpg?v=1691382799","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/napoleon-and-english-romanticism-hardback-9780521473361","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}