This book argues that poetry played a major role in the mediation of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars to the British public, and that the wars had a significant impact on poetic practices and theories in the Romantic period. It examines a wide range of writers, both canonical (Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Byron) and non-canonical (Smith, Southey, Scott, and Hemans), and locates their work within the huge amount of war poetry published in newspapers and magazines.

British Poetry and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: Visions of Conflict

Literature & Fiction

Bainbridge, Simon

British & Irish

Oxford University Press

This book examines the relationship between Romantic-period writing and the activity that Samuel Taylor Coleridge christened 'mountaineering' in 1802. It argues that mountaineering developed as a pursuit in Britain during the Romantic era, earlier than is generally recognised, and shows how writers including William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Ann Radcliffe, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, and Walter Scott were central to the activity's evolution. It explores how the desire for physical ascent shaped Romantic-period literary culture and investigates how the figure of the mountaineer became crucial to creative identities and literary outputs. Illustrated with 25 images from the period, the book shows how mountaineering in Britain had its origins in scientific research, antiquarian travel, and the search for the picturesque and the sublime. It considers how writers engaged with mountaineering's power dynamics and investigates issues including the politics of the summit view (what Wordsworth terms 'visual sovereignty'), the relationships between different types of 'mountaineers', and the role of women in the developing cultures of ascent. Placing the work of canonical writers alongside a wide range of other types of mountaineering literature, this book reassesses key Romantic-period terms and ideas, such as vision, insight, elevation, revelation, transcendence, and the sublime. It opens up new ways of understanding the relationship between Romantic-period writers and the world that they experienced through their feet and hands, as well as their eyes, as they moved through the challenging landscapes of the British mountains.

Mountaineering and British Romanticism: The Literary Cultures of Climbing, 1770-1836

History & Criticism

Romanticism: A Sourcebook (Palgrave Sourcebooks, 7)

A wide-ranging collection of the key contextual documents which inform the Romantic period.  It includes material on fiercely debated areas such as the French Revolution, women, the slave trade, science and religion.  Documents are supported by substantial editorial material, drawing connections to the major Romantic texts.

Arts & Photography

Red Globe Press

A wide-ranging collection of the key contextual documents which inform the Romantic period. It includes material on fiercely debated areas such as the French Revolution, women, the slave trade, science and religion. Documents are supported by substantial editorial material, drawing connections to the major Romantic texts.

A collection of ten stories on a political theme, with selections ranging from Mark Twain and Charles Dickens to James Thurber and Kingsley Amis. This book also contains a contribution from Jeffrey Archer.

Fools, Knaves and Heroes: Great Political Short Stories

ARCHER,JEFFREY

Pan/Macmillan

Napoleon Bonaparte occupied a central place in the consciousness of many British writers of the Romantic period. In this first full-length study of Romantic writers' obsession with Napoleon, Simon Bainbridge focuses on the writings of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey, Byron and Hazlitt. Combining detailed textual analysis with historical and theoretical approaches, and illustrating his argument with contemporary cartoons, Bainbridge shows how Romantic writers constructed and contested different Napoleons as part of their partisan engagement in political and cultural debate.

Napoleon and English Romanticism (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, Series Number 14)

Cambridge University Press

Napoleon Bonaparte occupied a central place in the consciousness of many British writers of the Romantic period. In this first full-length study of Romantic writers' obsession with Napoleon, Simon Bainbridge focuses on the writings of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey, Byron and Hazlitt. Combining detailed textual analysis with historical and theoretical approaches, and illustrating his argument with contemporary cartoons, Bainbridge shows how Romantic writers constructed and contested different Napoleons as part of their partisan engagement in political and cultural debate.

Fools, Knaves, and Heroes: Great Political Short Stories

Fools, knaves, and heroes: Great political short stories

Short Stories & Anthologies

Bellew Publishing

Matisse and Picasso by Robert Capa, Takashi Murakami by Olivia Arthur, Warhol and de Kooning by Thomas Hoepker, Bonnard by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Sonia Delaunay by Herbert List, Kiki Smith by Susan Meiselas, and many more. For the first time, Magnum Artists brings together a collection of over 200 photographs that define the unique relationship between the world's greatest photography collective and the world's greatest artists.

Magnum Artists: Great Photographers Meet Great Artists

Laurence King Publishing

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British Poetry and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: Visions of Conflict

Mountaineering and British Romanticism: The Literary Cultures of Climbing, 1770-1836

Romanticism: A Sourcebook (Palgrave Sourcebooks, 7)

Romanticism: A Sourcebook (Palgrave Sourcebooks, 7)

Fools, Knaves and Heroes: Great Political Short Stories

Napoleon and English Romanticism (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, Series Number 14)

Napoleon and English Romanticism (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, Series Number 14)

Fools, knaves, and heroes: Great political short stories

Magnum Artists: Great Photographers Meet Great Artists