Tracing War in British Enlightenment and Romantic Culture

This volume argues for the enduring significance of war in the formation of British Enlightenment and Romantic culture. It is premised on the assumption that the study of war in this period cannot be contained by conventional disciplinary rubrics, parameters and periodizations. Offering, therefore, an interdisciplinary approach, it combines consideration of the many forms of war's textuality with an attention to its affects, materialities and socialities. The collection problematises assumptions about the ontology of war by focussing on its multiple, divergent and productive traces.

Neil Ramsey is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of New South Wales, Australia. His first book, The Military Memoir and Romantic Literary Culture, 1780-1835, was published in 2011. He is currently researching a book that focuses on Romantic era military and naval war writing.

Gillian Russell is Gerry Higgins Chair in Irish Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She is author of The Theatres of War: Performance, Politics and Society 1793-1815 (1995) and has published widely on Romantic period war writing.