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Romanticism and the biopolitics of modern war writing
- Title
- Romanticism and the biopolitics of modern war writing / Neil Ramsey.
- Author
- Ramsey, Neil
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
- ©2023
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Details
- Description
- vii, 286 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "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"--
- "Military literature was one of the most prevalent forms of writing to appear during the Romantic era, yet its genesis in this period is often overlooked. Ranging from histories to military policy, manuals, and a new kind of imaginative war literature in military memoirs and novels, modern war writing became a highly influential body of professional writing. Drawing on recent research into the entanglements of Romanticism with its wartime trauma and revisiting Michel Foucault's ground-breaking work on military discipline and the biopolitics of modern war, this book argues that military literature was deeply reliant upon Romantic cultural and literary thought and the era's preoccupations with the body, life, and writing. Simultaneously, it shows how military literature runs parallel to other strands of Romantic writing, forming a sombre shadow against which Romanticism took shape and offering its own exhortations for how to manage the life and vitality of the nation"--Back cover.
- Series Statement
- Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 135
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 135.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Literary criticism
- Literary criticism.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-278) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 23-3312
- ISBN
- 9781009100441
- 1009100440
- 9781009118798 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781009122207 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2022018428
- OCLC
- 1334720959
- Author
- Ramsey, Neil, author.
- Title
- Romanticism and the biopolitics of modern war writing / Neil Ramsey.
- Publisher
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
- Copyright Date
- ©2023
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 135Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 135.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-278) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1899
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9781009122207
- Research Call Number
- JFE 23-3312