Abstract

Introduction: border raids as cultural practice 1. Holcroft's Parisian expedition 2. After war: Manfred and the melodrama 3. Barbauld's sallies 4. Love beyond faith and hope: Percy and Mary Shelley on history and prophecy 5. The import of Hunt's 'Italianism' 6. Cockneys in Tuscany Select bibliography.

Highlights

  • "It is a year or so after the war

  • Cox aims to show how dissident writers challenged the accelerated spread of reactionary politics during the Napoleonic era

  • Since the conflicts of the Napoleonic era entailed "limited expeditions, sallies, and border raids" rather than the "total war" that would emerge in the twentieth century (3), Cox argues that literary culture in the Regency period likewise made sporadic, tactical forays across literary, conceptual and social boundaries

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Introduction

"It is a year or so after the war. It cannot be said that it is war, it cannot be said that it is peace, it can be said that it is post-war; this will probably go on for ten years." This wryly phrased statement from Stevie Smith's post-war novel Holiday (1949) could serve as an epigraph to Jeffrey Cox's fine-grained study of British literary culture in the Napoleonic war years. In previous studies of romanticism and war, scholars such as Simon Bainbridge (Napoleon and English Romanticism, 1995; British Poetry and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 2003), J.R. Watson (Romanticism and War, 2003), and Mary Favret (War at a Distance, 2010) have sometimes pessimistically argued that literature could not generate viable alternatives to the dominant ideology of perpetual conflict.

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