Bloody Romanticism: Spectacular Violence and the Politics of Representation, 1776-1832

By Ian Haywood

This book studies the impact of violence on the writing of the Romantic period. The focus is on the response of writers to a series of violent events including the revolutions in America and France and the Irish rebellion of 1798. Authors covered include Coleridge, Wordsworth, Scott, Byron, Fennimore Cooper, Equiano, and Helen Maria Williams.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 140394282X
• ISBN13: 9781403942821
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 8.5"