Writing War in Britain and France, 1400-1854
Subtitle: A History of Emotions
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9781138219168
Subjects: War in literature; War and literature; Great britain, history; France, history
Description: "Writing War in Britain and France, 1370-1854: A History of Emotions brings together leading scholars in medieval, early modern, eighteenth-century, and Romantic studies. The assembled essays trace continuities and changes in the emotional register of war, as it has been mediated by the written record over six centuries. Through its wide selection of sites of utterance, genres of writing and contexts of publication and reception, Writing War in Britain and France, 1370-1854 analyses the emotional history of war in relation to both the changing nature of conflicts and the changing creative modes in which they have been arrayed and experienced. Each chapter explores how different forms of writing defines war -whether as political violence, civilian suffering, or a theatre of heroism or barbarism - giving war shape and meaning, often retrospectively. The volume is especially interested in how the written production of war as emotional experience occurs within a wider historical range of cultural and social practices. Writing War in Britain and France, 1370-1854: An Emotional History will be of interest to students of the history of emotions, the history of pre-modern war and war literature"--