Waterloo and the Romantic Imagination.(Book Review)
Publication: The Modern Language Review
Publication Date: 01-JUL-04
Author: Kelsall, Malcolm
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Waterloo and the Romantic Imagination. By PHILIP SHAW. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2002. xiv+260 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-333-99435-3.
Written and visual representations of the Battle of Waterloo are such obvious (and major) subjects for cultural study that it is surprising that this is the first substantive examination of the matter. On the field of Waterloo an epoch of history was violently terminated and the post-war epoch abruptly began. Tourists streamed to the site of the battle and recorded their impressions; poets sought to philosophize history (Byron and Scott, Southey and Wordsworth, even Coleridge). Wellington himself tried to...
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