Napoleon and English Romanticism
Napoleon and English Romanticism

Author: Simon Bainbridge

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1995-11-24

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780521473361

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Napoleon Bonaparte occupied a central place in the consciousness of many British writers of the Romantic period. He was a profound shaping influence on their thinking and writing, and a powerful symbolic and mythic figure whom they used to legitimize and discredit a wide range of political and aesthetic positions. In this first ever full-length study of Romantic writers' obsession with Napoleon, Simon Bainbridge focuses on the writings of the Lake poets Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey, and of Byron and Hazlitt. Combining detailed analyses of specific texts with broader historical and theoretical approaches, and illustrating his argument with the visual evidence of contemporary cartoons, Bainbridge shows how Romantic writers constructed, appropriated, and contested different Napoleons as a crucial part of their sustained and partisan engagement in the political and cultural debates of the day.

The Longest Afternoon
The Longest Afternoon

Author: Brendan Simms

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2015-02-10

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0465039944

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From the prizewinning author of Europe, a riveting account of the heroic Second Light Battalion, which held the line at Waterloo, defeating Napoleon and changing the course of history. In 1815, the deposed emperor Napoleon returned to France and threatened the already devastated and exhausted continent with yet another war. Near the small Belgian municipality of Waterloo, two large, hastily mobilized armies faced each other to decide the future of Europe-Napoleon's forces on one side, and the Duke of Wellington on the other. With so much at stake, neither commander could have predicted that the battle would be decided by the Second Light Battalion, King's German Legion, which was given the deceptively simple task of defending the Haye Sainte farmhouse, a crucial crossroads on the way to Brussels. In The Longest Afternoon, Brendan Simms captures the chaos of Waterloo in a minute-by-minute account that reveals how these 400-odd riflemen successfully beat back wave after wave of French infantry. The battalion suffered terrible casualties, but their fighting spirit and refusal to retreat ultimately decided the most influential battle in European history.

Romanticism in the Shadow of War
Romanticism in the Shadow of War

Author: Jeffrey N. Cox

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-08-21

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 1107071941

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A fresh take on Romantic writers including Byron, the Shelleys, and Keats, within the culture of the Napoleonic War years.

Ismael; an oriental tale. With other poems
Ismael; an oriental tale. With other poems

Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-11-05

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13:

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"Ismael; an oriental tale. With other poems" by Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.