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.
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