Bloody Romanticism
Spectacular Violence And the Politics of Representation, 1776-1832
Haywood, Ian
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BOOK SUMMARY
This book is the first comprehensive study of the subject of spectacular violence in British Romantic literature and print culture. It looks at the impact and influence of a series of catastrophically violent events: the transatlantic slave trade; the Ame
BOOK SYNOPSIS
This book is the first comprehensive study of the subject of spectacular violence in British Romantic literature and print culture. It looks at the impact and influence of a series of catastrophically violent events: the transatlantic slave trade; the American war of Independence and the 'Indian' problem; the French revolution and the Napoleonic wars; the Irish rebellion of 1798; and a series of riots and 'disturbances' stretching from the Gordon riots of 1780 to the Reform Bill riots of 1831.
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 140394282X
ISBN(13-digit): 9781403942821
Dewey Decimal: 820.935809033
Library of Congress: oc2007062285
Book Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 270
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