Waterloo and the Romantic Imagination offers a new and challenging look
at the cultural significance of the Battle of Waterloo, and the impact
it had on British Romantic culture. Drawing on a range of approaches it
aims to redefine the Romantic period as an age of inter- and
intra-national conflict, thus overturning conventional notions of 'The
Romantic Project', and re-writing the period from first principles.
Topics covered include: the impact of Waterloo on Romantic ideas of
individual and national identity, the representation of the dead and
wounded in poetry, painting and prose, the work of canonical and
non-canonical poets.