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.

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'Bloody Romanticism refreshingly resituates Romanticism in the global theater of revolution, warfare and slavery from which it originally emerged. Through a series of compelling readings of key literary texts, it offers the reader a view of Romanticism in which uprisings, executions and massacres displace waterfalls, cliffsides and daffodils as the crucial reference points of the imaginary landscape at the end of the eighteenth century.' - Professor Saree Makdisi, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

'While the nature of the subject matter means that this book is never an entirely relaxing read, Bloody Romanticism demonstrates that the tropes of spectacular violence were woven deeply into the fabric of all modes of popular print culture...The discourse of these bloody vignettes helps to advance, if not to complete, our capacity to understand.' - Jonathon Shears, Review of English Studies

'Where Haywood excels is in his ability to draw out the textual and ideological complexitites of popular Romanticism.' - Philip Shaw, British Association for Romantic Studies

'Haywood's book covers an astonishing range of ground... opens up a new perspective on Romanticism.' - Scott Hess, European Romantic Review

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IAN HAYWOOD is Reader in English at Roehampton University, London, UK. His publications include The Revolution in Popular Literature: Print, Politics and the People, 1790-1860 (2004), Romantic Period Writings, 1798-1832: An Anthology (1998), co-edited with Zachary Leader, and numerous articles and essays on Nineteenth-century radical politics and literature.

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Book Title: Bloody Romanticism
Book Subtitle: Spectacular Violence and the Politics of Representation, 1776-1832
Authors: Ian Haywood
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230596795
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-4282-1Published: 26 October 2006
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-59679-5Published: 26 October 2006
Series ISSN: 2634-6516
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6524
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 270
Topics: Poetry and Poetics, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, British and Irish Literature, History of Britain and Ireland, Modern History

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Introduction: Romantic Agonies

‘Beneath the Bloody Scourge Laid Bare the Man’: Slavery and Violence

‘Disturbed Imagination’: The French Revolution

‘The Most Distressful Country’: The Irish Rebellion of 1798

American ‘Savagery’

Unruly People: The Spectacular Riot

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