血なまぐさいロマン主義：見せ物としての暴力と表象の政治学 Bloody Romanticism : Spectacular Violence and the Politics of Representation, 1776-1832

Haywood, Ian

Palgrave Macmillan（2006/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 270 p.／サイズ 25 in-text illus.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781403942821
• DDC分類 809.93358

基本説明

The focus is on the response of writers to a series of catastrophically violent events: the revolutions in America and France, the Irish rebellion of 1798, the campaign against the slave trade, and the Gordon riots.

Full Description

This book studies the impact of violence on the writing of the Romantic period. The focus is on the response of writers to a series of violent events including the revolutions in America and France and the Irish rebellion of 1798. Authors covered include Coleridge, Wordsworth, Scott, Byron, Fennimore Cooper, Equiano, and Helen Maria Williams.

Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Romantic Agonies 'Beneath the bloody scourge laid bare the man': Slavery and Violence 'Disturbed imagination': The French Revolution 'The most distressful country': The Irish Rebellion of 1798 American 'savagery' Unruly People: The Spectacular Riot Notes Index