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Enlightenment and
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Amy Prendergast
LITERARY SALONS ACROSS BRITAIN AND IRELAND IN THE LONG
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Jessica Richard
THE ROMANCE OF GAMBLING IN THE E IGHTEENTH- C ENTURY
BRITISH NOVEL
Andrew Rudd
SYMPATHY AND INDIA IN BRITISH LITERATURE, 1 770– 1830
Seth Rudy
LITERATURE AND ENCYCLOPEDISM IN ENLIGHTENMENT BRITAIN
Sharon Ruston
CREATING ROMANTICISM
Case Studies in the Literature, Science and Medicine of the 1790s
Yasmin Solomonescu
JOHN THELWALL AND THE MATERIALIST IMAGINATION
Richard Squibbs
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David Stewart
ROMANTIC MAGAZINES AND METROPOLITAN LITERARY CULTURE
Rebecca T ierney- H ynes
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Tracing War in British
Enlightenment and
Romantic Culture
Edited by
Neil Ramsey
Lecturer in English, University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia
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Gillian Russell
Gerry Higgins Chair in Irish Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia
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Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgements xi
Notes on the Contributors xii
Introduction: Tracing War in Enlightenment and
Romantic Culture 1
Neil Ramsey and Gillian Russell
1 Shandeism and the Shame of War 16
Jonathan Lamb
2 Invalid Elegy and Gothic Pageantry: André, Seward and
the Loss of the American War 37
Daniel O’Quinn
3 Victims of War: Battlefield Casualties and Literary Sensibility 61
R. S. White
4 The Cultural Afterlives of Toussaint Louverture and
the Haitian Revolution 77
Deirdre Coleman
5 Romantic Militarisation: Sociability, Theatricality and
Military Science in the Woolwich Rotunda, 1 814– 2013 96
Gillian Russell
6 Exhibiting Discipline: Military Science and the Naval and
Military Library and Museum 113
Neil Ramsey
7 Battling Bonaparte after Waterloo: Re- enactment,
Representation and ‘The Napoleon Bust Business’ 132
Simon Bainbridge
8 Turner’s Desert Storm 151
Philip Shaw
9 Narrative and Atmosphere: War by Other Media in Wilkie,
Clausewitz and Turner 171
Thomas H. Ford
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10 Destroyer and Bearer of Worlds:
The Aesthetic Doubleness of War 188
Nick Mansfield
Bibliography 204
Index 219
List of Illustrations
Cover: John Heaviside Clark, ‘The Battle of Waterloo’, 1816, engraved
by Matthew Dubourg, courtesy of the British Museum.
1.1 Wenceslaus Hollar, Plan of a Fortified Harbour at Tangier,
1627– 77, courtesy of the British Museum. 19
1.2 Titian, Diana and Actaeon, 1556– 9 , courtesy of
the National Gallery, London. 24
1.3 Paolo Veronese, Respect, Four Allegories of Love, c.1570,
courtesy of the National Gallery, London. 25
1.4 Unknown photographer, ‘Miss Evelyn Chapman at work
in Villers- B retonneux, c. 1914– 1 918’, collection of the
Australian War Memorial. 32
3.1 John Heaviside Clark, ‘Waterloo, the Day After’, 1816,
engraved by Matthew Dubourg, courtesy of
the British Museum. 62
4.1 ‘Toussaint Louverture’, The Johnston Collection, Victoria,
Australia, c. 1808, photo courtesy of Angela Hesson. 81
4.2 Nicolas Eustache Maurin, printed by François Séraphin
Delpech, ‘Toussaint L’Ouverture’, from Iconographie des
Contemporains, c. 1 800– 1850, courtesy of The National
Portrait Gallery. 84
4.3 Marcus Rainsford, An Historical Account of the Black Empire
of Hayti: Comprehending a View of the Principal Transactions
in the Revolution of Saint Domingo; with its Antient and Modern
State (London: James Cundee, 1805), facing p. 240;
courtesy of the National Library of Australia. 87
5.1 George Scharf, ‘Royal Artillery, Repository Grounds,
Woolwich; view looking over woods towards the Rotunda’,
1826, British Museum Department of Prints and Drawings,
1862,0614.210, courtesy of the British Museum. 99
5.2 George Scharf, ‘Interior of the Royal Military Repository,
the Rotunda, Woolwich’, 1828, British Museum Department
of Prints and Drawings, 1862,0614.202, courtesy of the
British Museum. 108
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