Full Description
Writing War in Britain and France, 1370-1854: A History of Emotions brings together leading scholars in medieval, early modern, eighteenth-century, and Romantic studies. The assembled essays trace continuities and changes in the emotional register of war, as it has been mediated by the written record over six centuries.
Through its wide selection of sites of utterance, genres of writing and contexts of publication and reception, Writing War in Britain and France, 1370-1854 analyses the emotional history of war in relation to both the changing nature of conflicts and the changing creative modes in which they have been arrayed and experienced. Each chapter explores how different forms of writing defines war - whether as political violence, civilian suffering, or a theatre of heroism or barbarism - giving war shape and meaning, often retrospectively. The volume is especially interested in how the written production of war as emotional experience occurs within a wider historical range of cultural and social practices.
Writing War in Britain and France, 1370-1854: A History of Emotions will be of interest to students of the history of emotions, the history of pre-modern war and war literature.
Contents
List of figures. 1. 'In Form of War': War and Emotional Formation in European History, Stephanie Downes and Andrew Lynch. 2. Confessing the Emotions of War in the Late Middle Ages: Le Livre des fais de Boucicaut, Craig Taylor. 3. Emotion and Medieval 'Violence': The Alliterative Morte Arthure and The Siege of Jerusalem, Andrew Lynch. 4. The Armagnac-Burgundian Feud and the Languages of Anger, Tracy Adams. 5. Violent Compassion in Late Medieval Writing, Catharine Nall. 6. 'Thus of War, a Paradox I write': Thomas Dekker and a Londoner's View of Continental War and Peace, Merridee L Bailey. 7. Corresponding Romances: Henri II and the Last Campaigns of the Italian Wars, Susan Broomhall. 8. Bellicose Passions in Margaret Cavendish's Playes (1662), Diana G Barnes. 9. 'At Newburn foord, where brave Scots past the Tine': Emotions, Literature, and the Battle of Newburn, Gordon D Raeburn. 10. 'This humble monument of guiltless Blood': The Emotional Landscape of Covenanter Monuments, Dolly Mackinnon. 11. Paradoxes of Form and Chaos in the Poetry of Waterloo, R.S. White. 12. War and Emotion in the Age of Biedermeier: The United Service Journal and the Military Tale, Neil Ramsay. 13. 'A Possession for Eternity': Thomas De Quincey's Feeling for War, Michael Champion and Miranda Stanyon. Index.
